Jeremy Kichler
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Cotton: The cotton crop ranges from 7-8 leaves to 4th week of bloom. White fly populations are not exploding but are been noticed more every week. Scouts and consultants need to monitor the situation over the next few weeks. As of today (July 30, 2023), I have not seen or heard of any target spot…
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Jennifer Dunn, UGA Rural Health Educator, will be holding a Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) Agribusiness Training in Colquitt County on August 8, 2023 from 10:00 to 1:00. The goal of the QPR training is to provide ag community leaders with knowledge and awareness that will better enable them to recognize and assist a farmer who…
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Another exciting week in Colquitt County agriculture. The 2023 Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day is scheduled for July 20, and farmers are invited to join us to learn practical information from the region’s top agricultural scientists about the newest technologies that farmers can use to improve their operations. The Sunbelt team looks forward to welcoming…
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The 2023 Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day is going to be held this Thursday, July 20th. Below is more information on this event. It is a great opportunity for farmers, consultants, ag retailers or anybody interested in agriculture to learn more about this industry. The 2023 Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day is scheduled for July…
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From Dr. Lenny Wells. Stuarts in East Georgia have been shedding leaves for a few weeks. Initially, the reports of this were of healthy, green compound leaves. We sometimes see healthy, green leaves drop like this when the weather turns hot and dry but this was occurring back when we were still seeing cool temperatures…
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Cotton: The crop ranges from 4 leaf to the second week of bloom. It does not take long for dry conditions to take over. Irrigation requirements increase as the crop approaches bloom. The UGA Weather station at the Sunbelt Ag Expo reported evapotranspiration rates from 0.23 to 0.26 inches per day for 6 out of 7…
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Cotton: Plant bug, plant bug!! That has been the topic of the week. The cotton crop ranges from 6-8 leaf to first bloom. Plant bug pressure depends on which field you are in. Aphid pressure has been increasing but the fungus has been noticed in fields around the county by scouts and consultants. Aphids will…
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County Agents and scouts are reporting higher than normal tarnished plant bug infestations. Weather conditions and plant bug populations appear to be similar to those we observed in 2021, a year where we estimated over 30 percent of the acreage was treated for plant bugs. In more normal years we treat about 10-12 percent of…
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Mark Abney Peanut Entomologist The 2023 peanut growing season did not start out hot and dry, but nobody bothered to tell the lesser cornstalk borers (LCB). This pest is generally only a serious problem when temperatures are in the 90s and rainfall is scarce; nevertheless, LCB populations were reaching threshold levels in peanut fields all…