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DIY Goat Milker for Small Ruminant Owners. Great for kid supplementation and making goats milk soap.
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Spray Volume and Droplet Size ConsiderationsSimer Virk and Bob Kemerait, UGATimely and effective fungicide applications throughout the season are an important tool for growers tomanage and protect yield from diseases like white mold and leaf spot in peanut. While selection of agood fungicide program is critical, it is also important to ensure that the application…
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August Weather & Climate OutlookPam Knox, Agricultural Climatologist, UGAThe temperature in July has been generally slightly cooler than normal, with daytime temperaturesbelow normal (from clouds) and overnight temperatures warmer than normal due to the abundanthumidity we have experienced this month. This is also reflected in the wetter than normal rainfall formost of Georgia in July,…
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Corn Special Agent Cale Cloud of Grady County just sent me this photo showing denting corn where they had limited irrigation during late pollination(R1) and blister(R2) and perhaps milk(R3) stages. That was when we were having extreme heat and dry weather. On the very tip there was no pollination then as we go down the…
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Sunflower Weed Control and Windmillgrass (Prostko) A few things you might find interesting: 1) Here’s why Valor (flumioxazin) ain’t labeled for weed control in sunflowers! 2) Lots of questions lately about windmillgrass aka fingergrass (Chloris spp.). Could be an annual or perennial plant depending upon the species. Supposed to be very sensitive to Roundup (glyphosate), Poast…
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Environmental conditions that are warm and humid like these coupled with crop development are driving our disease situation hard now. White mold: see attached pictures from Jeremy in Colquitt County and Cale in Grady County. Note the thin, wispy development of the white mold pathogen Sclerotium rolfsii at the crown of the plants and on…
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Corn, Cotton, Soybeans, and Peanuts.
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The “big” story in the world of row crop diseases in Georgia continues to be the equation: Crop growth stage and development + very hot temperatures + dry with sporadic rainfall = disease risk. For the peanut crop, these conditions could mean that growers will continue to see death from Aspergillus crown rot even as…
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Should I Use Gypsum on my Peanuts This Year? Or Maybe an Alternative Source of Calcium? HarrisThere doesn’t seem to be as much talk about a gypsum shortage this year, but there are still ‘supply chain” issues and price of input concerns to the point where there is plenty of talk about whether to apply…
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