Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to the study, 61% of Georgia farmers reported having no life-work balance as a source of stress, as they relentlessly monitor farm operations and have no free time alone or with family.
Hurricane Helene was also crippling for farmers in Georgia because it hit just six years after Hurricane Michael, Wells said. The 2018 hurricane caused more than $2 billion in overall damage to ...
The climate of Georgia makes it ideal for growing corn and harvesting grapes and tea Tea production in Georgia, depicted on a 1951 Soviet postage stamp. Georgia’s climate and soil have made agriculture one of its most productive economic sectors; in 1990, the 18 percent of arable Georgian land generated 32 percent of the republic's net material product in 1990. [1]
Senate study committee approves 11 recommendations aimed at slowing conversion of farmland across the state.
The agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous occupations and has led to thousands of deaths due to work-related injuries in the US. In 2011 the fatality rate for farmworkers was 7 times higher than that of all the workers in the private industry, a difference of 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 people as opposed to 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 people in the private industry. [4]
Studies show that Georgia is among a string of "Deep South" states that will experience the worst effects of climate change, [1] [2] with effects including "more severe floods and drought", and higher water levels "eroding beaches, submerging low lands, and exacerbating coastal flooding."
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
A farm crisis is an American term for a time of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes. The Interwar farm crisis was an extended period of depressed agricultural incomes from the end of the First to the start of the Second World War. The most recent US farm crisis occurred during the 1980s. [1] [2] [3]