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There are a few soybeans around Colquitt County, and I have been getting questions on this subject. Irrigation is expensive and requires careful management to be economically feasible for soybeans. This can usually be accomplished when (1) soybean market prices are good, (2) irrigation overhead costs can be shared with a winter-spring crop and (3) when…
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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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It has gotten dry over the last week in Colquitt County. Majority of the corn in the county is late dough to early dent stage of development. Questions about irrigation termination have started to come into the Extension office. Below are a few thoughts. Early irrigation termination on corn is a common mistake and it…
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Sweet Corn Growers, Stripling Irrigation Research Park is hosting a Sweet Corn Production Workshop at SIRP on Tuesday July 22. Here’s the tentative schedule for the Workshop at SIRP: 9am – Welcome (Calvin Perry) 9:10am – Fertility and Varieties (Tim Coolong) 9:30am – Insect Management (Stormy Sparks) 9:50am – Weed Management (Andy Shirley) 10:10am…
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I am getting a lot of questions about bermudagrass stem maggot and how to manage it from Colquitt County hay producers. According to Dr. Dennis Hancock, UGA Forage Agronomist, low levels are being monitored around the state. In Colquitt County bermudagrass fields, me and Amber Arrington, Colquitt County Extension agent, are also monitoring low levels of BSM. It…
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PEANUT Rx: I have been getting questions about peanut fungicide programs. Peanut RX is a way to determine your risk level for leaf spot and soil borne disease, and use the most conservative fungicide program as a base for developing your per field prescription spray program. Using “prescription” fungicide programs based upon risk…
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Vegetable producers, Below are a few words from Stormy Sparks, UGA Vegetable Entomologist, on the current insect situation in vegetables. Southern armyworm have been reported in multiple tomato fields. This is not unusual. What is unusual is that they have been hard to kill. They have been reported to have come through a…
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University of Georgia Extension has some of the best Extension Agents in the U.S.! Some of the best examples can be found on our Forage Extension Team. They have co-written a newsletter series entitled Georgia Forage News. The latest edition addresses three major topics: 1) summer annual forages, 2) weed control strategies for pastures and…