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February 2016

  • The Brooks County Cooperative Extension Office will be hosting a silage/baleage meeting this Wednesday March 2nd at noon here in the Brooks County Ag Building. The speakers will Dr. John Bernard, who will be speaking about current corn silage and baleage practices in the Georgia. Also, Ben Shirley will be speaking about pasture weed control…

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  • On Februrary 23rd at 9:00 a.m. Brooks County Extension will be hosting an area training for applying auxin herbicides in Auxin -Tolerant Technologies with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  This meeting will provide 3 hours private and/or 3 hours of commercial pesticide credits. Please refer to information below for more details.  Cotton and soybean varieties with tolerance…

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  • On Februrary 23rd at 9:00 a.m. Brooks County Extension will be hosting an area training for applying auxin herbicides in Auxin -Tolerant Technologies with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  This meeting will provide 3 hours private and/or 3 hours of commercial pesticide credits. Please refer to information below for more details.  Cotton and soybean varieties with tolerance…

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  • Article below was taken from FarmPress an article published yesterday on their website; Click here to read the original article. The LSU AgCenter has released a guide listing grain sorghum hybrids that offer resistance to the sugarcane aphid, a pest that has caused significant damage to Louisiana’s sorghum crop in recent years. The 14 hybrids…

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  •           The Brooks County Extension Vegetable Production Meeting was held on February 2, 2016, with Dr. Tim Coolong.  I wanted to share with you handouts that I distributed related to crop specific fungicide spray programs and fungicide efficacy charts for beans & brassicas.  Please click on links provided to access information.…

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  •                 The Brooks County Extension Weed Control Meeting for row crops (& vegetables) was held January 28, 2016 with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  During the cotton weed control portion of the meeting, I wanted to share information that could assist producers in controlling cost inputs for this year’s cotton…

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  •   The Brooks County Extension Cotton Marketing Meeting was held on January 19th, 2016, with Dr. Don Shurley.  I wanted to share the educational information that I distributed and discussed at this meeting.  I am providing links to the 2016 Row Crop Cost Comparison Budget (includes cotton, corn, peanuts, & soybeans), cotton budgets, and Tifton…

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  • Article taken from Agfax.com Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said early Wednesday that USDA lawyers have determined the department does not have the authority to declare cottonseed an oilseed, as the cotton industry has asked. The declaration would make cottonseed eligible for farm subsidies, but after a speech to the National Association of State Departments of…

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  •   The 2016 Brooks County Extension Vegetable Production Meeting will be held today at noon.  Dr. Tim Coolong will review recently updated food safety regulations and various vegetable varieties for 2016 plantings.  Also, I will have available 2016 Vegetable Crop Handbooks, fungicide spray programs, and fungicide efficacy charts.  Please make plans to attend this production…

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  • Please take some time to read this lengthy, but great article by Dr. Hancock UGA Extension Forage Specialist on nitrogen fertilization in our pastures and hayfields. Yet again, the weather is making farming a high stakes game of chance. We had a very wet end to the summer growing season (in most areas) and this…

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