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Peanut Shade Tree Meeting Friday, August 17, 2018 – 10:00 am Cromley Farms There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting on Friday, August 17, 2018 at 10:00 am. The meeting will be held at Cromley Farms (Lee and Charley) which is located at 9714 Brooklet-Denmark Road, Brooklet, GA 30415. (GPS Coordinates: N 32.371496° E…
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Please view flyer below for information in regard to the annual Midville Field Day scheduled for August 15, 2018.
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Soybean rust has been confirmed on soybeans in Grady County (7/24) and kudzu in Decatur County (7/18). Consider spraying a fungicide on your soybeans if: They have reached R2/R3 growth stage. Have good growth and reasonable yield expectations. This is especially critical if soybeans exhibit good growth and full canopy of foliage. The strobilurin and chlorothalonil fungicides…
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Southern corn rust was confirmed today in Mitchell and Tift counties. Dr. Bob Kemerait stated that the corn in the Mitchell County field is well into dent stage and does not need a fungicide application now. Corn in southern Georgia not at dough stage is vulnerable. The southern rust does not appear widespread, but could move quickly with current…
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Cotton aphid numbers have been steadily increasing over the last several weeks. Aphids generally build to moderate/high numbers and eventually crash due to a naturally occurring fungus. This fungal epizootic typically occurs in our area in early/mid-July. Once the aphid fungus is detected in a field we would expect the aphid population to crash within a week…
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Trade negotiations between the United States and China have been ongoing. The uncertainty in trade policy between China and the U.S. has created concerns among the agricultural community. Please click on the two recently released extension publications below to view: The Impacts of China and United States Trade and Tariff Actions on Georgia Agriculture: the Perspectives of…
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The UGA Weather Network was disrupted by a virus a couple weeks ago that affected the cellular devices used to communicate with the weather stations. Several of the stations were brought back online last week, but others are yet to be fixed. The Statesboro station was corrected today and is back up and working. I…
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There will be a Tax Law Workshop on May 18 at 9:00 am at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture that will highlight estate tax changes, individual tax changes and business tax changes in the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” It will also include a review of schedule F (farming profit and loss) as well…
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The Seed Cotton Program Decision Aid and Dicamba Record Form is now available on the Bulloch County Extension website. Scroll down the page until you get to the Related Links section. You will find both documents listed in this section. The Seed Cotton Generic Base and Yield Update Program Decision Aid is a series of spreadsheets designed to help aid…
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The next One-On-One Training for applicators (individual spraying dicamba) to get their certificate to apply dicamba in 2018 will be held this upcoming Thursday, March 22 at 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. The meetings will be held at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture. Please call the Bulloch County Extension Office 871-6130 or email Lisa at least one day prior to the…