2021 UGA Crop Budgets
These UGA Crop Budgets (budgets on pretty much all commodities) are a valuable tool when considering what to grow. Most are interactive an you can insert your own costs. Below is what you’ll see when you click this link: https://agecon.uga.edu/extension/budgets.html
Statewide Variety Testing
This is UGA commodity variety testing conducted each year at various locations in GA. Cotton, Corn, Soybeans, etc… . Click on link and choose a commodity under “SUMMER CROPS” or “WINTER CROPS”.
What is “Normal Weather” now?
Updated yardstick begs question: What’s ‘normal’ in a changing climate? Pam Knox
Some of you may know that normal temperatures are averages calculated over a 30-year period. The current “normal” period is 1981-2010, but that is due to change later this year when the climate records for 2020 are finalized after quality control and the new averages are calculated by NOAA. The new normals should be released sometime around May 2021. Because we are trading out the 1981-1990 period and bringing in the 2011-2020 period, we expect some changes in what the normals will bring. Bob Henson has an article in Yale Climate Connections that explains more about why we even have normals and how the shift of decades will affect the normals. From the maps in the article, you can see that most of the Southeast will appear to be getting warmer and wetter compared to the previous normal period. You can read it at https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/02/updated-yardstick-begs-question-whats-normal-in-a-changing-climate/.
Remaining Ag Production Meetings
These “virtual” winter ag production meetings have been different but the same unbiased research based information is being presented by UGA Extension Specialists. There are pros and cons to doing ag production meetings this way this year but if you’ve been watching these meetings, you can say you learned a little more about “virtual technology” maybe. I’ve watched some of these meetings on my phone while doing other stuff.
Your Pesticide Credits – you can check your own pesticide license current standings here.
https://agr.georgia.gov/1pesticide-applicator-licensing-and-certification.aspx