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The annual Georgia Peanut Tour, held Sept. 16 to Sept. 18 in southeast Georgia, is a major attraction for the nation’s peanut industry, and attracts a number of international visitors.

After gardening in the blazing sun all day, there is nothing better than enjoying the fruits (or flowers) of your labor in the evening, glass of wine in hand. Staff members with the Trial Gardens at the University of Georgia are offering gardeners, and garden fans, the chance to experience the fruits of their hard work this summer with the seventh annual “Evening in the Garden,” set for Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

A team of University of Georgia scientists have found peanut skins can be incorporated into traditional peanut butter with potentially surprising results.

Georgia will definitely be on the minds of the estimated 90,000 people that will flock to this year’s Sunbelt Ag Expo in October.

Georgia dairymen may soon have an alternative feed source for their cattle.

The backyard orchard class will cover how to select small and large fruit varieties as well as plant and maintain an orchard.

More than 25 percent of Georgia-grown agricultural crops are exported to other countries and that percent is growing.

Carrots have a reputation of being difficult to grow in Georgia’s clay soils. With a little knowledge and a few tricks, University of Georgia Extension experts say home gardeners can have success cultivating carrots.

A widespread soybean pest the past five years, the kudzu bug population in Georgia is much lower this growing season.