Extension agent outreach
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Last year at this time, an unexpected early season blizzard in South Dakota killed over 40,000 head of cattle. Many ranchers were caught unprepared by the unseasonable weather and had not moved their cattle to their winter pastures yet, which increased the losses. Cattle were also still in summer coats and were soaked by the…
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The latest release from the National Agriculture Statistics Service shows that 79 percent of subsurface soils are short on moisture, according to Growing Georgia. This continuing lack of rainfall has caused crops like soybeans, cotton and peanuts to fade and pastures to stop producing grass. Even crops that were going to be baled for filler…
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David Schmidt from the Animal Agriculture and Climate Change working group posted this column today about the SRECA meeting we had early in September in Athens and what it taught him about peer-to-peer learning. When I am not thinking about animals and climate, I think about my online undergraduate course that I teach…
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The National Weather Service has a product available on the web pages for their forecast offices that may be of some use for planning purposes up to five days ahead. It is called the “Graphical Forecast’ and an image of the interactive map is below. By moving your mouse over the different boxes in the…
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If you are interested in the presentations from the Southeast Regional Extension Climate Academy, they have just been uploaded to the PINEMAP YouTube video channel. You can access them at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHu4PGejzrIyU2A7Mm2RIWhybDik1jnW3. The audio is of variable quality since they were just recorded from ambient sound. Thank you to Dr. Eric Taylor of Texas A&M for…
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The latest newsletter from UGA’s Stripling Irrigation Park (available at https://striplingpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2014-Sept-Newsletter.pdf has some great comments on how the wet spring and dry summer have affected cotton and peanuts around the area, particularly in southwest Georgia. Wes Porter, the UGA irrigation specialist, has some good comments about irrigation needs for cotton and peanuts as the seasons…
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Nick McGhee noted in his Nochaway Ag Update that dryland peanuts this year have been challenged by the drought as well as insect pressures. Some peanuts are coming loose in the pod even though they have not reached maturity. For guidance on harvesting these peanuts, check out his blog entry at https://site.extension.uga.edu/nochaway/2014/09/dryland-peanut-considerations/.