Winter Ag Production Meetings
2021 Winter ag production meetings will be conducted using Zoom (video conference) in which our speakers will be joining remotely. You can watch from your computer at home, or at the Cook Extension Office. We will plan to offer the meetings in the Extension Ag Mtg Room at the Cook Extension Office where speakers will be available through Zoom, attendance/space will be limited, and all Covid-19 precautions will be followed. This type of winter production meetings are non-typical and we’ll make changes and adjustments as needed. As of now here are the meetings dates and times:
County Pecan Production Meetings to be Virtual in January, February, and March 2021 – Lenny Wells
As a result of COVID, we will be forced to hold virtual rather than in-person county pecan production meetings this year. I know this comes as a disappointment to many but this is being done in the interest of everyone’s safety.
The plan is to host these meetings via Zoom on three separate dates so that county agents and growers can have multiple opportunities to participate as they wish. Dr. Angel Acebes, Andrew Sawyer, Jason Brock, and myself will each give presentations and will be available for questions over Zoom. Tentative dates for the meetings are as follows:
January 21 —6 pm
February 9—9 am
March 9—6 pm
The January and March meetings will be held at 6:00 pm and the February meeting will be held at 9:00 am so that people have options of the best times that may work for them.
We are still working out the details of setting things up for this with regard to registration, pesticide credits, etc., but I will be posting more information here as the plan comes together.
Cook Cotton Variety Trial Data
We had two cotton variety trials in Cook County this year, irrigated and dryland. Dryland was recently picked and irrigated was completed earlier. Below is spreadsheet with preliminary data submitted from counties participating (up to last week) for the 2020 on-farm cotton variety trials. There are more trials out there yet to turn in their data. This spreadsheet includes Cook’s irrigated trial data.
“We have ginned 4 locations on a small gin (only separates the seed from the lint, no lint cleaners) and we used the mean turnout to estimate lint yields for all locations. Since there is no cleaning the lint percentage is higher than what we would observe in a commercial gin. However the numbers are still relative but just a couple of points higher.” – UGA Cotton Specialist Phillip Roberts.
Peanut Variety Trial Data
Here is data from a Peanut Variety Trial conducted this year in Berrien Co.. Included is NET YIELD,% TSMK, % TSWV, LEAFSPOT RATING.
