A website from UGA Cooperative Extension

August 2025

  • We are halfway through August and it wont be long until we are turning some peanuts over and then defoliating some cotton. With that being said, our annual Southeastern Gin Harvest Meeting has been set. See the flyer below for details on that. Disease pressure has start to ramp up a bit in some peanut…

    Posted in: , , , ,
  • Topics in this months newsletter include water splits, pecan scab and wrapping up fungicide programs, insects, and water and nutrient management in August. Also, don’t forget to RSVP and attend the SE Georgia Pecan Field Day Southeast Georgia Pecan Field Day Water Split With as much Rain as we have had since early May it…

    Posted in:
  • We were dry and now it has turned off wet again with several rainy days in the forecast. I still have not been able to find a population of foliage feeders in a peanut field in the county… fingers crossed, see Dr. Abneys update on insects in peanut further in this newsletter. I was starting…

    Posted in: , ,