{"id":7788,"date":"2025-09-21T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:31:33","slug":"colquitt-county-row-crop-production-update-9-22-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/2025\/09\/colquitt-county-row-crop-production-update-9-22-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Colquitt County Row Crop Production Update 9\/22\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Topics in this newsletter include: <\/strong>An article on Projected Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Georgia Agriculture. What is going on with peanut maturity. The dry weather and cotton defoliation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the US Drought Monitor released September 16, 100% of Colquitt County is experiencing abnormally dry conditions. Up from last week’s 49%.The dry conditions are impacting forage and hay production, and peanut maturity and digging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the USDA Crop Progress report, 1% of Georgia cotton has been harvested and 2% of the Georgia peanut crop is harvested according to the September 15 report. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peanut Maturity:\u00a0<\/strong>It has been an interesting week at the peanut maturity checks. Georgia 06G has been the most common variety brought into the checks, consisting of over 38% of the total samples. \u00a0Georgia 12Y and TifNV consisted of 21.8% and 15.5% of the total samples, respectively. \u00a0The percentage of irrigated samples was 58%.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table 1 shows the average age of maturity of dryland and irrigated samples during three planting periods of Georgia 06G, TifNV, and Georgia 12Y that have been brought into the Colquitt County Extension office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table 1. Average Age in Days to Maturity for Dryland and Irrigated Peanut Samples planted in April and May for Georgia 06G, TifNV, Dynagro 913, and Georgia 12Y in Colquitt County Extension maturity checks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somebody asked me the other day about the longest periods of time without rain.  This data is from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center<\/a>.  If you select the NWS station located 2 miles southeast of Moultrie, Since 2000, there has been 10 times when no rain has occurred for a period of 30 days of longer. The longest period occurred in 2021 when we went 46 days without rain.  Thirty or more days without rain have also occurred in 2022, 2023 and 2024.  This weather station went 25 days without rainfall (2025-08-25 \u2013 2025-09-18) but there is missing data from this weather station since the 18th. The UGA Weather Station at the Expo reported a rain event of 0.07 inches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Projected Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Georgia Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article reviews changes to the agriculture-related provisions in the OBBBA, including updates to commodity programs such as Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC), as well as crop insurance. It also discusses the economic impacts of these changes on Georgia producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n