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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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The Weed Control meeting has been moved to 9:00 am from noon!! Due to a unforeseen scheduling conflict we will have to move the meeting up to 9:00am sharp. Please show up before 9:00 if you wish to attend the meeting. We will be eating a full breakfast, so come ready to eat and listen to…
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Here is a good article from our UGA Pecan Extension Specialist Lenny Wells, For many things related to pecan production, there are almost as many opinions out there about how to do something as there are people to ask. When you get varying opinions on a subject, the thing to do is look at the science behind…
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Here is the 2016 Crop Comparison Tool and Row Crop Budgets from UGA Extension Economists Amanda Smith and Dr. Don Shurley. You can go to the link and download the comparison tool and customize expected yield and prices. The 2016 peanut, corn, grain sorghum, and soybean enterprise budgets are also complete.
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Via Alton Sparks, Extension Entomologist; “Many have asked about EPA’s proposal to revoke US food tolerances for the insecticide chlorpyrifos. This proposal is an outcome of a recent U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision ordering EPA to respond to allegations about chlorpyrifos in a 2007 activist petition. EPA said it will not act on…