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Irrigation

  •   No one has to tell Colquitt County peanut producers about how dry it is.  As area peanuts are reaching peak water use, depending on planting date, growers need to know how much water to apply or conserve water if they limited amounts.  Below are a few comments from the UGA Peanut folks on the current…

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  • Rain has been hit or miss in Colquitt County over the last week and growers are asking about water requirements for peanuts.  Below are a few words from Calvin Perry, Gary Hawkins, and Wesley Porter, UGA Extension, about the current peanut irrigation situation. Typically you’d like to have peanuts in the ground by the end of…

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  • Dr. George Vellidis has developed an irrigation app for cotton. The SmartIrrigation Cotton App is now available.  This is a smartphone app for scheduling irrigation on cotton which is available for both iOS and Android phones.  You can find links to the app at https://smartirrigationapps.org/. You can find lots of supporting information about the App…

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  • Calvin Perry, superintendent at the CM Striping Irrigation Research Park, put together some good winterizing tips for irrigation systems in their latest newsletter….

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