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  • UGA Peanut All About the Pod Podcast.

    Below is the newest podcase from Dr. Scott Monfort with the latest info on what they are seeing in Peanut fields in Georgia

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  • Cracking Spray and Weed Control in Peanuts – Ben Reeves Berrien County ANR Agent

    A few things from the field: However, for those of you who are making cracking sprays here are some rates and a few reminders:

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  • Peanut Disease Update – Dr. Kemerait

    How to start a peanut fungicide program?

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  • Corn Silage and Forage Field Day Tifton June 15th

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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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  • Row Crop Update – Dr. Bob Kemerait

    To date, UGA Extension does not know of ANY southern rust (or soybean rust) in Georgia or in bordering areas of Alabama or Florida, though I am sure there is some somewhere.  The hunt continues…. SO, WHAT DO WE TELL GROWERS-  I have told you many times, “Corn Growers, especially under irrigated conditions and those…

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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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