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  • Final UPW Training Added to Schedule June 8th in Tifton

    The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced last week an additional opportunity to attend required 2023 UPW training. All producers who have not attended need to plan to attend. If producers have already attended, but have employees and/or newly hired employees that need to attend in order to apply Engenia, XtendiMax, and Tavium. Time and place…

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  • Soil-Applied Glyphosate and Peanuts

    Soil-Applied Glyphosate and Peanuts (by Dr. Eric Prostko) I received a few questions recently about the use of glyphosate prior to planting or shortly after planting peanuts.  Many of you have remembered (surprisingly!) what Dr. Culpepper has said about the potential residual effects of higher rates of glyphosate on crops such as transplanted squash, broccoli,…

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  • 2023 GA FL Tobacco Tour

    2023 GA FL Tobacco Tour Registration link https://form.jotform.com/231306161149145 General Schedule The tour will begin with a Kick-Off Supper in Live Oak, FL, on Monday, June 5, and end near Metter, Georgia on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Monday, June 5, 2023 The tour will begin with a Kick-Off Supper at the Brown Lantern, 417 E Howard…

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  • Corn Growers Blog – Current Crop Stages Make Decisions More Difficult – By: Dr. Dewey Lee

    Current Crop Stages Make Decisions More Difficult Georgia corn growers as a whole have a corn crop that ranges from just emerging to near tasseling.  Tuesday morning, I had the privilege of talking to my counterparts across the U.S. from Minnesota to Texas to Virginia to Colorado as we meet bi-weekly by Zoom.  Quite honestly, it…

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  • Lewis Tobacco Settlement Payments Expected in July 2023

    Lewis Tobacco Settlement Payments Expected in July 2023 — Written By Mitch Smith (2 weeks ago)en Español Last fall, the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service (Pitt County Center) alerted county tobacco farmers, heirs, and former quota holders of an approved plan for the former flue-cured tobacco cooperative  (Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation) to return an estimated $70 million…

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  • Cotton, Peanut, and Soybean Scout School

    Insect scouting schools will be conducted on June 5, 2023 in Tifton and June 13, 2023 in Midville. Crops to be covered includecotton, peanuts, and soybean. These programs offer basic information on insect pest identification and damage, natural enemies, and scouting procedures. The training will serve as an introduction to insect monitoring for new scouts…

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  • Valor/Peanut Injury (Again) – Dr. Prostko

    Valor/Peanut Injury (Again) – Prostko Last night (May 12), many areas of the state received some rainfall.  In some locations, it was more than 1″ (Camilla = 1.47″; Ft. Valley = 2.04″; Midville = 2.67″, TyTy = 3.14″).  Thus, I am pretty sure that my phone will be ringing off the hook this week about…

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  • May Peanut Pointers – UGA Peanut Team

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  • Herbicide Name Recognition By Dr. Prostko (Very important read for hay and corn producers)

    Dr. Prostko addressed an issue I have already addressed in Ben Hill County. Some product names labeled for different crops sound very similar, but have very different active ingredients. Be sure to state what crop it will be applied to and what your are looking to control when asking for recommendations from us and talking…

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  • Row Crop Disease Update May 3rd – Dr. Kemerait

    Here are some pointers:

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