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Colder Temperatures This Week – Pam Knox The recent warm weather has caused sap to start rising in grapevines in northern GA and early blooming of some plants (perhaps including blueberries) in southern Georgia. However, that warm weather is going away and we will go through another period of normal to below-normal temperature for the…
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Reminders on Recently Announced Upcoming Meetings Regional Irrigation Workshop at GGIC in Metter February 25, 2025 The Candler and Evans County Extension offices and the Georgia Grown Innovation Center are excited to invite you to a Regional Irrigation Workshop hosted at the Georgia Grown Innovation Center in Metter, GA. The event will take place on February…
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Sign-up for the Master Irrigator Program began this Monday and will continue until Friday, February 1. The goal of this program is to help producers adopt efficient irrigation scheduling through promotion of UGA Irrigation research results and adoption of new technologies. Responsibilities for each entry are listed below. Project Guidelines: Grower obligations: UGA obligations: Sign-up:…
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Reminder of Upcoming Meetings and Events: ——————————————————————————————— Appling County Cotton Meeting Recap There was a nice turnout at the cotton meeting. We would like to send a thank you to the Georgia Cotton Commission for help funding the meal and to our speakers for providing their information and recommendations. See below main points from each…
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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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Events Listed in this Newsletter Reminder: 2025 Appling County Pecan Meeting will be this Thursday, January 30, 2025, beginning at 12:00. Call the extension office at 912-367-8130 to RSVP. Georgia Cotton Commission Annual Meeting – Wednesday, January 29, 2025 The Georgia Cotton Commission Annual Meeting and UGA Cotton Production Workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, January…
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If you watch social media for weather news, you will have noticed that another blast of very cold air is expected early next week starting on Sunday and lasting through Thursday. Many parts of the state will experience morning temperatures into the teens and some areas of the state may stay below freezing for a…
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Notice at the end of this newsletter, the 2025 Georgia Corn Short Course has been postponed. There was a good turnout at the 2025 Appling County Peanut Production Meeting. See the attached PDFs below for handouts given at the meeting if you were not able to attend. I would like to thank our speakers Dr.…
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Talkin/ Cotton Podcast – Season 1, Episode 20 Below is a link to episode 20 of the Talkin’ Cotton Podcast, where we discussed the federal economic and disaster assistance that was voted on and approved (12/21/24), and will provide some much needed relief for Georgia growers. Remember that this link takes you to buzzsprout, but…