Pee Dee Research News Today

This collaboration focuses on developing climate-resilient cereal crops – sorghum, millet, wheat and rice – funded by a $22 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Scientists at Clemson Universitys Pee Dee Research and Education Center hope they can use a conventional method for an unconventional result: removing much of the gluten from wheat.

Gluten is a group of proteins found in some cereal grains, most notably wheat. While foods containing gluten are part of a healthy diet, it can be detrimental for people

To help people with gluten sensitivities or intolerances be better able to digest foods containing wheat, researchers are determining how to manipulate genes to breed for wheat varieties that do

The early onset of spring this year has caused some unique problems for beekeepers and honey production in Horry County.

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program to undergo new payment process, requires farmer training.

Good blueberry soils are forested areas with a lot of debris.

One older lady told me she was hesitant to try it but ended up going back for a second helping.

In recent years, changes in climate have resulted in high night-time temperatures and dramatically reduced the fruit set of many of our important vegetable crops. When it is seventy-five degrees or higher at night, many crops will not pollinate – there maybe vigorous, well-tended plants in the field that are covered with flowers, but the pollination process is impeded by those high thermometer readings.

The newsletter will include information from specialists and agents related to pest issues they are seeing in the field.