{"id":1584,"date":"2026-08-07T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:16:01","slug":"newsletter-8-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/2026\/08\/newsletter-8-17-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter 8\/17\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunt Sanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1591\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333386884297787;width:828px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/IMG_7282-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How Long Until Corn Harvest?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corn dry down depends on Growing Degree Units (GDUs) and weather:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30%-&gt;25%: ~30 GDUs per 1% decrease in moisture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25% -&gt; 22%: ~ 45 GBUs per 1% decrease in moisture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Calculating GDUs in corn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Daily Max Temp + Daily Min Temp \/ 2) &#8211; Base Temp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The base temp for corn is 50 degrees. The upper and lower temperature caps applied at 86 degrees and 50 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/httpwww.gaweed.comslides2024-field-corn2024-field-corn.pdf-1024x738.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/httpwww.gaweed.comslides2024-field-corn2024-field-corn.pdf-1024x738.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/httpwww.gaweed.comslides2024-field-corn2024-field-corn.pdf-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/httpwww.gaweed.comslides2024-field-corn2024-field-corn.pdf-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/httpwww.gaweed.comslides2024-field-corn2024-field-corn.pdf.png 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Post harvest weed control in corn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cotton Team Newsletter<\/strong>: <strong>August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Additional Base Acre Allocation: What Landowners Need to Know? (Yangxuan Liu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. OBBBA Levels the Playing Field for Farm Business Structures (Yangxuan Liu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Should your Farm Change Its Business Structure? Considerations for Producers after the OBBBA(Yangxuan Liu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Cotton Irrigation Considerations for August (Wesley Porter)5. Silverleaf Whitefly Management (Phillip Roberts and Alana Jacobson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Cotton Jassid Update (Phillip Roberts and Alana Jacobson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/August-Cotton-Team-Newsletter.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of August Cotton Team Newsletter.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4a30e374-1260-48cc-8280-cafe452bafbc\" href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/August-Cotton-Team-Newsletter.pdf\">August Cotton Team Newsletter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/files\/2026\/08\/August-Cotton-Team-Newsletter.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4a30e374-1260-48cc-8280-cafe452bafbc\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunt Sanders How Long Until Corn Harvest? Corn dry down depends on Growing Degree Units (GDUs) and weather: 30%-&gt;25%: ~30 GDUs per 1% decrease in moisture 25% -&gt; 22%: ~ 45 GBUs per 1% decrease in moisture Calculating GDUs in corn (Daily Max Temp + Daily Min Temp \/ 2) &#8211; Base Temp The base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}