August 2016

• Brooks County Peanut Hull Scraping 2016

  August 26, 2016

          I wanted to let you know that we started scraping peanuts this week at the Brooks County Extension office.  Please follow the attached  link, providing information regarding collecting peanut samples for hull scraping.  Please give me a call if you have questions. 2016 Peanut Clinic Info Flyer  

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• 2016 Brooks County Cotton Defoliation Meeting

  August 23, 2016

  Please remember that we have a cotton defoliation meeting today at Rountree Lodge (Hiers Lodge) beginning at 12:00.  Dr. Jared Whitaker, UGA agronomist, will be discussing defoliation options for 2016.    

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• 2016 Brooks County Silage Trial Results

  August 9, 2016

  I want to share results obtained from the Brooks County 2016 Corn Silage Variety trial.  We planted this trial on April 25th and harvested 14 weeks later on July 27th.  This year’s trial included 69 replications, 23 varieties replicated three times each.   The varieties are ranked according to two different parameters, lbs. of milk/acre and green tons @35% moisture/acre.…

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