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  • Seedling disease is something that can frustrate cotton growers. Economic losses to seedling diseases can be significant at specific locations,especially when weather conditions are cool and wet at planting time and the grower is not able practice good crop rotation.  Below are good management practices to reduce the chance of seedling disease in cotton according…

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  • Cool and wet weather has vegetable growers looking for information on disease management in vegetables.  Below are links to vegetable spray guides for commercial growers. Cabbage https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/documents/BroccoliCabbageFungicideSprayPrograms2014.pdf Tomatoes https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/documents/SGATomatoFungicideSprayPrograms2014.pdf Squash https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/documents/SquashFungicideSprayPrograms2014.pdf Pepper https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/documents/PepperFungicideSprayPrograms2014.pdf Watermelon https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/documents/WatermelonFungicideSprayPrograms2014.pdf Other guides https://plantpath.caes.uga.edu/extension/extension/VegetableSprayGuides.html  

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  • The Georgia Pest Control Management Handbook is great resource for pesticide information not only for county agents but for farmers, retailers and gardeners.  This reference can be obtained online at the following links Commercial: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=SB28   Homeowner: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=SB48  

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  • The Colquitt County area has had rain this week and the area wheat crop is around Feekes stage 10 of development.  This has sparked some questions and concerns about fusarium head blight.  Below are some questions that I have been getting about this subject and would like to thank  Dr. Alfredo Martinez, UGA Plant Pathologist, for…

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  • Pecan Grafting Clinic

    A pecan grafting clinic will be held at the UGA Ponder Research Farm pecan orchard on Tuesday April 21, 2015. Grafting techniques discussed will be 4-flap or banana grafting and bark grafting. The grafting clinic will begin at 10:00 a.m. See below for directions: UGA Ponder Farm Directions 28 Ty Ty Whiddon Mill RD Ty…

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  •     Forage production is at the heart of Georgia’s livestock industries. Our diverse forage systems are some of the best in the world. For the fourth straight year, the Georgia Cattlemen’s Annual Convention begins with a focus on forages with the Georgia Forages’ Conference starting off the week’s events. This Conference is planned for April 1-2, 2015 at…

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  • Alfalfa In the South

    The Georgia Forages program will host a workshop entitled “Alfalfa in the South” on Mar. 17 starting at 9 a.m. The workshop will be at the UGA Livestock Instructional Arena (2600 Milledge Ave., Athens, GA). NEW! – We are also excited to announce that you can also join us by webinar! We’ll be broadcasting the classroom portion…

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  • Below is Don Shurley’s comments about the current cotton marketing situation. CMN03132015  

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  • The electronic copy of the 2015 Georgia Soybean Production Guide can be accessed via the UGA Soybean Webpage at https://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fieldcrops/soybeans/   Or accessed directly via the link — https://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fieldcrops/soybeans/documents/2015GeorgiaSoybeanProductionGuide-website.pdf   The recommended varieties for 2015 can be found in the guide and on the webpage OR via the link — https://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fieldcrops/soybeans/documents/UGASoybeanVarietyRecomendationsfor2015.pdf

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  • Below are some thoughts from Lenny Wells, UGA Pecan Specialist, on fungicide programs in pecan. The following 8-spray fungicide schedule is provided as an example of one option to use for pecan scab management in light of the emerging scab insensitivity issues surrounding some of our fungicides. Since Tin is such an integral part of our fungicide arsenal for…

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