Food safety should be your first consideration when preparing food for your family or customers. Before you start food preparations, conside...
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When gardening, pulling weeds, or visiting plants in your yard and landscape, you may encounter long-legged flies that dash from leaf to lea...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting cervids such as deer. Knowing the causes and symptoms to look f...
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Most people probably heard about the emergence of broods 13 and 17 of periodical cicadas in May and June 2024. This was unusual because the ...
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are emerging organic contaminants known as “forever chemicals” due to their widespread applic...
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The AU PARTNER Program helps communities create safe, useful, and enjoyable active walking and bicycling routes to everyday destinations. Wh...
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Rainy, hot, and humid summer conditions, combined with the maturing of fruit crops, necessitate monitoring your apple or pear orchards for t...
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SerPIE: Synergistic Efforts to Reduce Pharmaceutical Impacts on the Environment
What is SerPIE?
SerPIE is the acronym for Synergistic ...
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Nineteen communities across Alabama are installing new areas to encourage children to engage in daily movement in a fun and engaging way. In...
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Some invasive species are obvious. Damage to fields from feral hogs is easily visible, whole buildings and forests can be covered by kudzu, ...
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Peach trees have the capability to produce an extremely high number of peaches each year. Leaving too much of this fruit on the tree will re...
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With so many peach varieties to choose from, it can be difficult to decide which ones to plant. The same peach tree varieties are not recomm...
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