There will be a handful of meetings this month in Appling County, see the list below for meeting information. I blasted my first peanut pod sample for 2025 last Friday, they were 120 days old DG 913 peanuts and looked to be about 17-21 days out from digging, this could be longer due to the cooler temperatures. Give me a call to schedule a time to do peanut maturity checks, May 5th planted peanuts are 120 DAP today. Dr. Monfort believes our early planted peanuts could be right on time to slightly early, read more on his thoughts further in this newsletter in the Peanut Pointers. I started to see some leaf spot ramp up in fields with tighter rotations last week, I highly recommend a high dose of good leaf spot material in tighter rotation fields to finish out the season were needed. We are learning more about Cotton Jassid as we go. Dr. Roberts has given us agents another update, see those slides below, call if you have any questions and check your fields.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Cotton and Peanut Research Field Day, September 3rd at 8:00am, 230 Rigdon Aultman Road, Tifton, GA
- National Cotton Council Farm Bill Education Meeting, September 8 at 9:00am, Appling Ag Center, Baxley, GA
- Southeastern Gin Harvest Meeting, September 11 at 10:00am, Southeastern Gin and Peanut, Surrency, GA
- Appling County Young Farmer September Meeting, September 23 at 6:00pm, Turners Pondhouse, Surrency, GA
Topics in this Newsletter:
- Cotton/Peanut Research Field Day set for Sept. 3, 2025, in Tifton, Georgia
- Peanut Maturity Checks
- Cotton Jassid Update September 1, 2025 (Dr. Phillip Roberts, UGA Cotton Entomologist)
- Ext PA and Irrigation Blog Post (Dr. Wes Porter, UGA Precision Ag/Irrigation Specialist)
- Tassel Wrap Info (Dr. Nick Shay, UGA Grains Agronomist)
- One Big Beautiful Bill Act – CSC Podcast and NCC informational meetings (Dr. Camp Hand, UGA Cotton Agronomist)
- Talkin’ Cotton Podcast (UGA Cotton Team)
- All About the Pod Podcast (UGA Cotton Team)
| Cotton/Peanut Research Field Day set for Sept. 3, 2025, in Tifton, Georgia |
| PERRY/TIFTON, Ga. (Aug. 22, 2025) – The Georgia Cotton Commission, Georgia Peanut Commission and the University of Georgia Extension Cotton and Peanut Teams, will co-sponsor a joint research field day on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Tifton, Georgia. The field day will start at 8:00 a.m. at the University of Georgia Lang Farm located at 230 Rigdon Aultman Road, Tifton, Ga. After a brief welcome, field day attendees will visit the UGA Lang Farm to tour several trials and hear from speakers. Attendees will return to the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center for lunch and a short program. The field day is a free event, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP to Mallory Marchant at mallory.marchant@uga.edu or calling 229-386-3366 to provide an accurate count for lunch. The purpose of the tour is to showcase current research, which is funded by the respective commissions, in plot-side presentations by the researchers. The sponsors’ goal is to provide an educational environment for cotton and peanut farmers and give them the opportunity to pose questions directly to the researchers and to express opinions and concerns pertinent to the production of their crops. Chairmen of the cotton and peanut commissions, Bart Davis and Joe Boddiford, respectively, agree this event gives farmers the distinct opportunity to interact with the researchers, leadership of each commission, other farmers and industry representatives. It is an excellent place for farmers to observe, first-hand, the research programs funded by their checkoff investments. To view an agenda, visit www.georgiacottoncommission.org or www.gapeanuts.com. |
Peanut Maturity Checks
I am ready to start checking peanuts for maturity. See instructions below for taking a good sample. Also see below, charts for determining days after planting, we should check a field around 120-125 days after planting and again 7-10 days before anticipated digging date.
Taking a good sample is CRUCIAL in determining the proper time to dig, so here is a reminder of how to pull a sample for profiling peanut maturity. A peanut hull scrape maturity check will be as accurate as the sample that you take. Pull or dig up at least 5 to 6 adjacent plants from at least three representative parts of a field which can be dug in on day. Keep these samples from each area of the field separate. Pick ALL the peanuts off the plants until you get around 200 peanuts (a sample should contain between 180 and 220 peanut pods). Pick the vine clean. If it will be a while before you can bring the sample then pick off the sample and keep the peanuts in a bucket of water to keep them fresh.
Cotton Jassid Update September 1, 2025 (Dr. Phillip Roberts, UGA Cotton Entomologist)
Ext PA and Irrigation Blog Post (Dr. Wes Porter, UGA Precision Ag/Irrigation Specialist)
Here is today’s blog post: Peanut Inverter/Digger Set-Up | Extension Precision Ag and Irrigation. It is focused on points to address on a peanut inverter prior to and during the digging/inversion process. While a blog post cannot capture all of this in words, we will discuss it next week at the Harvest and Maturity Agent Trainings on September 3 (after the field day) in Tifton, and September 8th in Midville in person so it should help solidify some of the points when you see the actual digger.
Tassel Wrap Info (Dr. Nick Shay, UGA Grains Agronomist)
Please see the most recent information from Corteva/Pioneer on tassel wrap in corn.
https://corteva.showpad.com/share/iFDg4RutWioYVwgT08LnQ
| Tassel Wrap in Corn.pdf Tassel Wrap in Corn.pdf corteva.showpad.com |
One Big Beautiful Bill Act – CSC Podcast and NCC informational meetings (Dr. Camp Hand, UGA Cotton Agronomist)
I do not normally plug the other podcast I host like I do “Talkin’ Cotton” with y’all – however, I do think it is appropriate for the current circumstances. As you may know, I recently started hosting the Cotton Specialist Corner Podcast (sponsored by Cotton Incorporated), which provides more of a beltwide perspective on current issues, research, etc. This past week, we recorded an episode with Tas Smith (VP of Producer Affairs with the National Cotton Council), Kody Bessent (CEO of Plains Cotton Growers), and Taylor Sills (Executive Director, Georgia Cotton Commission) on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and considerations for growers. In my opinion, this episode provides some hope in a fairly bleak situation on the farm, and I hope that you will share it with your growers. Below is a link to the episode:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1768462/episodes/17769659
In addition to the podcast episode, the National Cotton Council is conducting educational sessions on the impacts of the OBBBA over the next two weeks across the cotton belt, and next week they will be in Georgia. Below is a link to the schedule for the meetings, of which there are multiple in Georgia. I hope everyone will share this with their growers so they can attend these sessions.
https://www.cotton.org/news/releases/2025/ncc-farm-bill-meetings.cfm
Of course if you have questions feel free to reach out. Look forward to seeing many of you over the next couple of weeks.
Talkin’ Cotton Podcast (UGA Cotton Team)
Below is a link to the latest episode of the Talkin’ Cotton Podcast. Feel free to distribute as you see fit. If y’all have questions holler.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2350262/episodes/17751287
Peanut Pointers (UGA Peanut Team)
All About the Pod Podcast (UGA Peanut Team)
EPISODE 27, Season 3
In this episode, Scott Monfort, Mark Abney, Scott Tubbs, and Tim Brenneman, and Albert Culbreath discussed maturity of the early planted crop, disease management, and along with the impact of Tim Brenneman’s efforts in peanut. If you have any questions or would like to suggest topics for discussion on a future episode, contact your local UGA Extension agent.