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Riding around the county I am beginning to see some trees breaking out buds. As we are getting on into spring here are a few things to be considering when thinking about managing your pecan crop this April. Also, see further in this email a newsletter from the UGA Pecan Team. Fertilization: Begin Nitrogen applications.…
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Topics in This Newsletter Appling County Young Farmer / UGA Extension Pre-Planting Meeting Appling County Young Farmers and Appling County Extension are hosting a Pre-Planting Meeting together on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at Turners Pond House. Dr. Wes Porter will be coming out and walking through setting up a planter hands-on with producers and dinner…
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Topics Mentioned in This Post ——————————————————————————– Reminder on Upcoming Meetings and Events ————————————————————— Weed Control in Conventional Corn (Prostko) Dekalb: DKC59-80, DKC111-30, DKC63-58, DKC66-02, DKC68-37 https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/dekalb/seed-catalog Dyna-Gro: D57CC51 https://dynagroseed.com/seed-finder/corn?cropsId=dynagroseed:crops/corn Pioneer: P1197, P1870, P1608, P17677 all have conventional versions but supply might be limited https://www.pioneer.com/us/product-catalog/crop-corn.html 2. Here is a slide from my 2025 county presentation about…
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Reminders on Recently Announced Upcoming Meetings —————————————————————– This Thursdays AC Row Crop Weed Meeting marks the end of the Appling County winter production meetings. We are very thankful for everyone that attended the meetings this season, as well as our sponsors for their donations to our programs and projects for 2025, and also to all…
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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…