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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 a…
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A NGO group is currently petitioning the US EPA to revoke all food use tolerancesfor the organophosphate class of chemistry. In peanut this means phorate (Thimet) and acephate(Orthene). This is not a good situation. The comment period is open until September 25, 2022. Click HERE to visit the EPA website to review other comments and…
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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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Please click HERE to view flyer in regard to the annual Midville Field Day scheduled for August 10, 2022 at 9:00 am. Information for registering is included on flyer.
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I identified some target spot in a few irrigated cotton fields in the county this afternoon (August 2) that were in the fourth week of bloom. I know that it is currently HOT and DRY, but past rain events in some locations (and irrigation), humidity and good cotton growth in those areas have it showing…
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I saw some areolate mildew in cotton at 5th week of bloom earlier today 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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I am sure by now you have heard that diuron herbicide is under review by the EPA. Access to diuron herbicide is in danger of being lost. Click HERE to view a letter of support (Dr. Stanley Culpepper has written a document that counter’s the EPA’s argument) for the value of diurons current labeled use…
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Cotton The cotton aphid fungus is showing up in cotton fields in Bulloch County – finally. Please view comments below provided by Dr. Phillip Roberts about stink bug management in cotton: Southern green and brown stink bugs are the two most common stink bugs infesting Georgia cotton. Both have sucking mouthparts and damage cotton by…
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Cotton aphid numbers were slow to get started this year, but have been increasing rapidly over the last couple of 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…
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