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  • Cotton Defoliation

    Cotton defoliation meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday August 28th at noon at the Brooks County Ag Building.

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  • Below is a list of the 2018 Brooks County Production Meetings. Please RSVP to the office at 229-263-4103 a few days before each meeting so we can have a head count.

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  • Row Crop Disease Update

    I wanted to share disease updates and UGA recommendations, for peanuts, cotton, and soybeans.  Please call me if you have any additional questions. Peanut:  We have experienced a couple of weeks of ideal conditions (very hot temperatures & scattered rainfall) for leaf spot diseases and white mold.  In order to protect the crop during this critical…

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  • Please find attached two pieces of information regarding the availability of the new aldicarb product “AgLogic 15G”. Please click on the two links below for more information, AgLogic15G Launch Release Letter Ag Logic Q&A letter UGA Extension has not tested it.  We do expect it to perform very similar to Temik 15G, but, again, UGA Extension has…

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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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  •                 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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  • Please join us tonight at 6pm in the Ag building for our cotton marketing meeting. Dr. Don Shurley (UGA Ag Economist) will be speaking with us tonight about cotton marketing and 2016 budgets. Private  and commercial pesticide credits will offered as well.

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  • I wanted to share cotton defoliation information/charts that I distributed at our cotton defoliation meeting on August 18, 2015.  The first chart list rainfree periods required for various defoliant products.  Please call if you have additional questions. Cotton Defoliation Handout (8-18-15)          

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