Over the last few decades, water use-related disagreements between Georgia and its surrounding states have held the spotlight in the Southeast. Legal battles have been fought, and although Georgia won the most recent lawsuit, the court’s decision stressed that Georgia shares the responsibility to conserve...
By David Mitchell UGA’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA) has awarded eight seed grants to fund initial research for projects at the convergence of agriculture, engineering, computing and other related areas of study. The grants, the first of their kind from IIPA, an interdisciplinary research unit...
Assistant Professor Simer Virk grew up on a small family farm that ran on manual labor. Now a precision agriculture specialist at UGA-Tifton, Virk is passionate about getting the right technology into growers' hands. Tell us about your academic or career path. How did you get...
Author: Jake Strickland UGA’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA), a new interdisciplinary research unit dedicated to the research and application of new technologies in agriculture, has made three new faculty hires. Leonardo Bastos, Lorena Lacerda and Guoyu Lu joined IIPA full time during Fall 2022,...
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[caption id="attachment_449" align="alignright" width="300"] Producers can use smart apps like Irrigator Pro to adapt their irrigation schedules based on real-time weather data. (Photo by Irrigator Pro)[/caption] As climate variability increasingly affects producers across the Southeastern U.S., Wes Porter spends a lot of time thinking about water — specifically,...
[caption id="attachment_454" align="alignleft" width="300"] Attendees at a past corn boil and farm tour at the J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center learn about the newest research coming from CAES.[/caption] Athens-area residents familiar with driving past two University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES)...