There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting on Friday, July 30, 2021 at 10:00 am. The meeting will be held at Brannen Family Farms located at 3925 Harville Road, Statesboro, GA 30458. We will meet at the Brannen’s shop. Please park at shop/equipment shelter. GPS Coordinates: 32°21’00.8″N 81°46’17.4″W Dr….
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Be sure to scout your peanut fields for worms. Farmers have been spraying isolated areas south and west of us recently for tobacco budworms. I visited a peanut field with Greg Sikes and Jason Parker this morning and was surprised to find cabbage loopers and fall armyworms (Figure 1) instead…
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Southern Corn Rust was confirmed in Jeff Davis County yesterday (June 9). Growers in our area should be on alert. There has not been any Southern Corn Rust found in the sentinel plot in Bulloch County, but if the weather pattern continues to be wet and humid we are definitely…
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Insect scouting schools will be conducted on June 7, 2021 in Tifton and June 15, 2021 in Midville. Crops to be covered include cotton, peanuts, and soybean. These programs offer basic information on insect pest identification and damage, natural enemies, and scouting procedures. The training will serve as an introduction…
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Information in this edition should be helpful as peanut planting is well under way and cotton planting more than likely will ramp up next week as long as mother nature cooperates. Hopefully all of you will get this needed rain and temperatures will not drop too low over the next…
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The state of Georgia Label for XtendiMax was turned down by the EPA. The denial of the label requires Georgia farmers to follow the Federal Label. As you are spraying dicamba (and other pesticides) this year, please be sure to keep it on the target field. Any off-target movement will…
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The Virtual Using Pesticides Wisely Trainings (UPW) have been completed; however, there are still applicators that need to be trained. I will offer the video at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture on April 16, April 21 and April 22. The training will begin at 9:00 am and will conclude…
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There are three opportunities left to participate in UPW Trainings and they are listed below: April 5 @ 5:30 pm https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_86HgfXsMRt64_dN_xz9b0g April 8 @ 9:00 am https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nry9IN0HQSu7YgP5TOiC3g April 12 @ 5:30 pm https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ox4YobtHSwW7N9OfjgnkBA Please click on above link for training in which you would like to register. Be sure to…
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Please click HERE to read the Dicamba Applicator Certified License Update that was released yesterday. However, this change does not effect or change the new requirements for applying paraquat. On another note, the 2021 UGA Peanut Production Guide arrived this week. I have some production guides in my truck and…
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The schedule for the 2021 UGA Extension Auxin Trainings has been finalized. The document has the training requirements as well as a schedule with the zoom links. All of the meetings will be virtual; however, I realize technology/internet service can be a problem, so if either of these is an…
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