Written by
Sarah Thompson
April 6, 2026
By Will Brown (UGA Extension Agent, Appling County), Savannah Tanner (UGA Extension Agent, Emanual County) Jennifer Miller (UGA Extension Agent, Jeff Davis County), and Wesley Porter
Now is the time to ensure that your insecticide hoppers on the back of the row units are calibrated. Depending on which crop you are planting the chances are high that you will be applying one of these products. While input costs are at an all-time high, we need to ensure products, such as these insecticides, are properly calibrated so that we are hitting our target rates to ensure adequate efficacy. We want products to work so we must eliminate under applications and ensure we are not wasting product by over applying. Read more