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  • Row Crop Disease Update Bob Kemerait

    Hot and hotter.  5:20 AM and my air conditioner is running.  I’m not the only one awake now.  Who else is awake? White mold and Southern corn rust are awake. They never sleep.  I guarantee the warm night temperatures now  and  the humidity are fueling them. I can almost hear them.  Be prepared.  It’s going […]

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  • June 2022 Cotton Team Newsletter

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  • Georgia Grain News  6-3-22 Rome Ethredge

    Georgia Grain News  6-3-22 Agents, We are seeing a lot in corn fields this week. Corn is tasseling and silking and some of the oldest is at the end of pollination, and it looks pretty well pollinated in most cases. Blister stage (R2) marks the end of pollination and we quickly thereafter enter the Milk […]

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  • From the Field – Weed Update By Dr. Prostko

    A few things for you to consider, fresh from the field: 1) New technologies are great but you can control weeds without it.  Nothing beats starting clean, using a strong residual herbicide (activated with moisture) at planting, followed by a timely POST (with more residual).  The Palmer amaranth population in these soybean plots is both […]

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  • UGA Pecan Blog Post on Heat and Issues That Come with it.

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  • “Cracking” Time Again on Peanuts (Prostko)

    “Cracking” Time Again on Peanuts (Prostko) Many peanut growers are in the field right now making “cracking” applications of paraquat (whether they really need it or not?).  I always get tons of questions about product use rates.  Check out these pictures from earlier today.  These are rates I have been testing for years and they […]

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  • Row Crop Disease Update

    by Bob Kemerait Rain for many growers is, as Luke Bryan says, “is a good thing” for growing a crop, but the combination of rain, warm temperatures, and corn approaching tassel does raise the ante for some important diseases. As of this morning, I don’t know of ANY soybean rust or southern corn rust in […]

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  • Forage Updates with Important News and Dates from UGA

    Tracking the Bermudagrass Stem Maggot I am starting to work with our Center for Invasive Species to report/track the BSM population during the summer. Anyone can make a report of the sighting by clicking the first link and filling out a simple form. This can also be done with the EDDMapS app, but the website […]

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  • 2022 Vegetable Spray Guide

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  • April Peanut Pointers

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