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  • Peanut Maturity Profile

    Peanut harvest will be here before you know it and I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of some important things that need to be done before the initial harvest begins. An initial Hull-Scrape Profile is recommended to determine maturity and a digging date. If you would like for me to take…

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  • There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 10:00 am.  The meeting will be held at Hal and Colby Cromley’s Farm located at 10137 Brooklet-Denmark Road, Brooklet, GA 30415. We will meet at their shop. GPS Coordinates:  32.376719, -81.674778 Dr. Bob Kemerait – Extension Plant Pathologist, Dr. Eric Prostko – Extension Weed…

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  • There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 10:00 am.  The meeting will be held at Hal and Colby Cromley’s Farm located at 10137 Brooklet-Denmark Road, Brooklet, GA 30415. We will meet at their shop. GPS Coordinates:  32.376719, -81.674778 Dr. Bob Kemerait – Extension Plant Pathologist, Dr. Eric Prostko – Extension Weed…

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  • Cotton: I saw some areolate mildew in cotton at 5th week of bloom yesterday in Bulloch County (Figure 1). The best management of areolate mildew is with judicious and timely fungicide applications. Cotton can be effected by areolate mildew until within four weeks of defoliation. When defoliation reaches 25% or so – the chances of…

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  • Information in this edition should be helpful as you continue to prepare to plant cotton and peanuts in 2023. The weather continues to change and the cooler temperatures seem to want to hang around. Hopefully the warmer conditions will be here to stay soon. I know many of you use the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network for…

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  • Please call the Extension Office (912) 871-6130 today, August 15, 12:00 noon, reply or email uge3031@uga.edu  if you plan to attend so accurate preparations can be made for refreshments.  There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting tomorrow, August 16, 2022 at 10:00 am.  The meeting will be held at Wade Hodges Farm located at…

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  • There will be a Peanut Shade Tree Meeting on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 10:00 am.  The meeting will be held at Wade Hodges Farm located at 2965 W. C. Hodges Road, Statesboro, GA 30461. We will meet at Wade’s shelter. Please park in front of shop/equipment shelter (look for sign where to turn off…

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  • Row Crop Weed Meeting Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Bulloch County Center for Agriculture 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm There will be a Row Crop Weed Meeting at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. UGA Extension Weed Specialists, Dr. Stanley Culpepper and Dr. Eric Prostko, will be the guest speakers.  This…

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  • Row Crop Weed Meeting

    Row Crop Weed Meeting Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Bulloch County Center for Agriculture 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm There will be a Row Crop Weed Meeting at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. UGA Extension Weed Specialists, Dr. Stanley Culpepper and Dr. Eric Prostko, will be the guest speakers.  This…

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  • Peanut Production Meeting Thursday, January 23, 2020 Bulloch County Center for Agriculture 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm There will be a Peanut Production Meeting at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Dr. Scott Monfort and Dr. Bob Kemerait will be the guest speakers.  This meeting will cover topics related to…

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  • Peanut Production Meeting Thursday, January 23, 2020 Bulloch County Center for Agriculture 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm There will be a Peanut Production Meeting at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Dr. Scott Monfort and Dr. Bob Kemerait will be the guest speakers.  This meeting will cover topics related to…

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  • Listed below are meeting dates that have been scheduled for 2020. Please be sure to put these dates on your calendar, because they will be here before you know it. All of the meetings listed below will be held at the Bulloch County Center for Agriculture, 151 Langston Chapel Road, Statesboro, GA 30458. There will…

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  • The 2019 Bulloch County Extension on-farm peanut research results can be viewed on the UGA Extension – Bulloch County website by clicking here. Go down page and look under Bulloch County Research Trials – 2019. Thanks to all the farm cooperators and companies that supplied product and/or support for the research trials. This effort would…

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  • Hunters for the Hungry

    Crop depredation by deer continues to be a problem in Bulloch County. The Georgia Wildlife Federation will be offering support of the Hunters for the Hungry program in Bulloch County again this year. This will be the fifth year that Bulloch County has participated in the program. Under this program, hunters can kill deer and…

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