Budget cuts take bigger bite out of UGA ag college - J. Faith Peppers, Southeast Farm Press

After surviving repeated budget cuts since 2009 totaling close to 25 percent, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will layoff 18 employees and sell 602 acres of research farms and timberland to make cuts levied by the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1. “We’ve worked hard over the past three budget cycles to make these drastic cuts without employee layoffs,” said J. Scott Angle, CAES dean and director. “We have had massive response to retirement incentives, which coupled with natural attrition reduced our workforce by 355 positions.”