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  • 2017 UGA Cotton and Peanut Research Field Day (Schedule) FINAL

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  • Peanut Harvest and Cotton Defoliation Update

    Thursday August 31 at 12:00 PM Please RSVP for Lunch 229-616-7455

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  • Peanut Maturity Clinics

    Peanut Maturity Clinics!! The Colquitt County Extension will be offering peanut maturity clinics beginning this Friday, August 25, 2017 until the end of September. The clinics will be offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM and will be held at the Colquitt County Extension office.  If you need any peanuts done earlier please let me…

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  • Colquitt County Cotton Defoliation and Peanut Harvest Update!! The Colquitt County Cooperative Extension will be hosting a cotton defoliation and peanut harvest update for area growers on Thursday, August 31, 2017 at noon.  This update will be held at the Colquitt County Extension office and will be sponsored by Adama.  Drs. Jared Whitaker, UGA Cotton…

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  • 2017 Cotton Insect Update

    Friday Morning August 4, 2017  Colquitt County Ag Complex 10:00Am UGA Entomologist Phillip Roberts will be discussing White Fly & Stink Bug Management Light Refreshments provided by NICHINO

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  • Update on Stored Corn Protectants

    Below are a few comments from Dr. Mike Toews, UGA Extension Specialist on Grain Storage For the first time in many years, we have several new products on the market as noted below. Products for Empty Bins Centynal EC. This is a good product for treating empty bins and elevator boots. Note that the active ingredient in…

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  • Bermudagrass Stem Maggot Management Update

    Bermudagrass Stem Maggot Management Update Will Hudson – Extension Entomologist The fall armyworm situation is much less severe this summer, but the stem maggot (BSM) is building in numbers in most of the southern 2/3 of the state. We’ve seen this pattern before, and our standard recommendation is that hay producers everywhere in the state…

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  • Cotton Policy Update – July 28, 2017

    Cotton Policy Update 7-28-2017 – Don Shurley

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  • Glen Harris, Professor, Extension Agronomist – Environmental Soil & Fertilizer University of Georgia Because the peanut plant is a deep-rooted legume that fixes nitrogen and is a good scavenger of “P&K’, most people say it doesn’t need a lot of fertilizer. That is not necessarily true and if you come up short on something like…

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