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  • UGA Tifton Campus to Host Annual Peanut Farm Show

    The University of Georgia Tifton Campus will be the center for all-things peanuts for growers and industry personnel on Thursday, Jan. 15, when the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center hosts the annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show. Held at the conference center for the third consecutive year, the show is designed to inform and educate farmers…

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  • Legume Scholars Program launched

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    Legume Scholars Program Launched Submissions Due By December 19, 2014 By 2050 the world will need to feed two billion additional people. A challenge this serious requires the best and brightest ideas in agricultural science. Want to help feed the future? Consider applying for a Graduate Fellowship from the Legume Scholars Program. Announcing a new…

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  • 7th International Advances in Arachis Conference held in Savannah, Ga.

    Over 100 international scientists and stakeholders attended the 7th International Conference on Advances in Arachis though Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB) last week, November 11-14, in Savannah, Georgia USA—including a large contingent of collaborators from the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. The AAGB conference, first held in Guangzhou, China in 2006, brings together a diverse group…

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  • Q&A with Abdi Mohammed: Aflatoxin Management of Eastern Ethiopia Groundnut

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    Abdi Mohammed Hassen is a short-term Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) trainee working with PMIL Lead Scientist Renee Arias at the United States Department of Agriculture National Peanut Research Laboratory (USDA NPL) in Dawson, Georgia. Abdi worked with Arias from August 5th until October 27th of 2014. He has returned home to complete his PhD…

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  • PMIL Assistant Director helps develop international extension materials on aflatoxin control in smallholder peanut production

    Jamie Rhoads, Assistant Director of the USAID funded Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) housed at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is participating in a writing workshop at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation’s (CTA) International Forum, October 13th through 17th 2014, in Arnhem, Netherlands. He is helping…

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  • Muniappan receives 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence

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    Dr. Rangaswamy (Muni) Muniappan, Director of the Integrated Pest Management Lab and a Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab Collaborator, has been awarded the 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in the Researcher Category. Muniappan received the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence today in Des Moines, Iowa. It is presented each year by the presidentially appointed…

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  • Georgia Peanut Tour attracts international visitors, PMIL collaborators

    The annual Georgia Peanut Tour, held September 16th to 18th in southeast Georgia, is a major attraction for the nation’s peanut industry, including a number of international visitors. The event not only showcases the Georgia peanut industry, but also serves to educate consumers, growers and researchers. This year, several of the attendees were affiliated with…

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