Pecans
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Reminder on Upcoming Meetings ————————————————————————————————————– Recap of Appling County Pecan Meeting We had a good crowd at this years Pecan Meeting. We would like to send a thank you out to our sponsors and to our speakers. See below main points from each speakers presentation at last weeks meeting. Main Points from Dr. Lenny Wells,…
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UGA On-Farm County Peanut Variety Trial Results Peanut Yield averages and Range across all locations % TSWV across all locations Level Number of Trials % TSWV Std Error Range Low High Georgia-18RU 3 13.2 2.9 7.5 18.9 FloRun-T61 2 12.6 3.5 5.7 19.6 AUNPL-17 6 11.4 2.0 7.4 15.5 Georgia-16Ho 3…
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Pecan orchards took a hard hit from Helene in Appling county. A third of the mature trees are down, at the least, and near to a quarter of the young trees did not fair to well either. Not only the tree themselves were roughened up but this years crop in Appling county has nearly been…
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I want to share with you that Dr. Bob Stougaard, Professor in Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, is now serving as an Extension resource for weed management in forage systems. See below his short article he recently shared with county extension agents. In this article he encourages producers to scout their hay fields and…
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We’ve had a lot of damage from ambrosia beetles this year. If you have had problems with this pest before OR if you have newly planted trees, it is likely a good idea to continue spraying the trunks of young (1-3 yr old) trees with a pyrethroid like Bifenthrin. Due to the number of beetles captured…
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Scab disease development requires the host and pathogen to be present and the conditions to be suitable for the pathogen to grow. The conditions required for scab development is a temperature range of 59-95 degrees F (optimal temp is 59-77) in the presence of moisture for at least 12 hrs. For the next 12 days…
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Articles in this issue: Pecan crop update; Herbicide options; Pecans and sulfur; Soil moisture meters; Low-input variety trial.
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