Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 7/24/16

Agriculture must take action now to manage the possible onslaught of new organisms, new insects and new diseases that is expected to escalate. “One thing that is very clear is our world today is getting smaller at least figuratively,” said Tim Brenneman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Georgia in Tifton, Ga., in an address to the annual meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society in Clearwater, Fla., July 14.

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