Extension agent outreach
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Becky Griffin from UGA’s Center for Urban Ag has a new publication out on starting a school garden. You can find it at https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=C1101. It has some great ideas for organizing it! I would add that adding a rain gauge or weather instruments to the garden is a great way to teach the kids about…
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The Georgia Farm Bureau posted a video story this week on the start of the cotton harvest in south Georgia. It featured Appling County extension agent Shane Curry and discussed the negative impacts of the hot and dry conditions on dryland cotton this year. Poor yields are exacerbated by low cotton prices, which make it…
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Jeff Cook, the Ag Extension agent in Georgia’s Taylor and Peach Counties, wrote a fantastic piece in the Three Rivers Ag News blog about the impacts of Hermine’s rainfall on a variety of crops in middle Georgia. I am reposting it here in its entirety. If you are interested in seeing more of this blog,…
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I want to give a quick shout-out to two UGA gardening blogs that got recognized in the top 100 garden blog list recently. You can find the entire list at https://blog.feedspot.com/gardening-blogs/. The first blog is the Center for Urban Agriculture’s blog at https://ugaurbanag.com/gardens/ which is put together by Becky Griffin, Extension Community and School Garden Coordinator. The…
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I got a request from one of the Georgia extension agents for some average evapotranspiration data. You might be asked about this too, so I thought I would post the information here. I found these curves for some Georgia locations from a paper published by Suleiman and Hoogenboom in the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage…
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I got a great question from Laura Griffeth, county extension agent for Webster County, Georgia, about a graph I showed in a post a while back on changes in summer temperature over time. Her question was “What happened in Georgia in the late 1960s for Georgia’s average temperature to be so low compared to other…
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Modern Farmer has a great article this week about extension agents and what a crucial role they play in educating the public about agricultural practices. The story has several profiles of extension agents around the country and what they do. I’m proud to work with many extension agents and serve as an extension specialist…
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