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Jeremy Kichler

  • Tips on Managing Seedling Disease In Cotton

    I have received a question or two about managing cotton seedling disease.  Below are a few points to consider from the UGA Cotton Production Guide. Good management practices to reduce the chance of seedling disease include the following: Plant in warm soils where the temperature at a 4-inch depth is above 65 F and where…

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  • Managing Thrips in Peanut

    Below are a few words from Mark Abney, UGA Peanut Entomologist, about managing thrips in peanut. As usual, thrips management will be the first insect issue peanut growers face in 2018. These tiny pests will be present in virtually every peanut field in the state, but the severity of infestations will vary from field to…

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  • Tips on Planting Peanuts

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  • Watermelon Update

    Watermelon Update Seedcorn Maggots in Transplanted Crops   Problems with seedcorn maggots in transplanted crops are popping up all over south Georgia this Spring. While this is a rare occasion (use of transplants avoids many soil borne insect problems), that makes it no less severe when it occurs. Maggots can kill tender young transplants, but…

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  • Colquitt County Extension Ag Update 4

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  • UGA Sorghum Quick Guide

    Below is a Georgia Quick guide that contains good production information on grain sorghum production. Georgia Grain Sorghum Production Quick Guide   Below is a list of Sugar Cane Aphid Tolerant Varieties. List of Sugar Cane Aphid Tolerant Varieties  

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  • Peanut Inconulant Reminders

    Below is information about peanut inconulants from Dr Scott Tubbs  

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  • Peanut Fertility Checklist

    Below is a peanut fertility topics that include pH, nitrogen, sulfur, P, K,  and Ca from Dr Glenn Harris, UGA Extension Soil Specialist.      

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  • 2018 Peanut Rx

    Below is the new edition of the 2018 Peanut Rx.  The Spotted Wilt Index and the Peanut Fungal Disease Risk Index were successfully combined in 2005 to produce the Peanut Disease Risk Index for peanut producers in the southeastern United States. The Peanut Disease Risk Index, developed by researchers and Extension specialists at the University…

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  • Update on Peanut Varieties for 2018

    Below is information on peanut varieties from Dr Scott Monfort, UGA peanut agronomist

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