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  • Cotton Irrigation

    Irrigating Cotton Through Bloom (Porter) Based on planting date most of the cotton across the state will be in peak bloom during August. Depending on what week of bloom you are in the water requirements for the crop will range from 1.3 (0.18” per day during week one of bloom), up to 1.5 (0.22” per…

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  • Cook Extension Ag Updates 7/8/19

    Updates from Bob Kemerait about potential tropical storm and cotton target spot. Potential Tropical Storm Most important for this morning (7/8/19):  watching the potential development and buildup of a tropical system in the northern Gulf of Mexico that could bring storms to us late in the week.  While the extent and impact of the development…

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  • Lessers in Peanuts, Spidermites in Watermelon, Spray Pecans Now

    Hot dry weather = hot dry weather problems.  Check peanut fields for lesser cornstalk borers as they are starting to pop up in Cook and Berrien counties; and reports of findings from other counties.  Found a hit of spider mites in watermelons.  Also see below for info on spraying pecans now (before rain predicted in…

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  • Peanut Weed Control and Hot Weather A few things to think about in regards to peanut weed control given the current weather conditions: 1)  Rainfall events on Mother’s Day Weekend (May 9-13) caused some Valor related peanut problems in many areas of south Georgia.  Since I have addressed this issue numerous times in other blogs,…

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  • Cotton, Peanut, Corn, Pecan Water Use

               

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  • Final Using Pesticides Wisely Mtg – 5/21/19

    Georgia Department of Agriculture Announces A Final UPW Meeting for 2019! (Culpepper, UGA and Gray, GDA). A final Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) meeting will be conducted at the Tifton Campus Conference Center on May 21, 2019 beginning at 1:30 pm. Similar to previous meetings and immediately after the UPW meeting, Extension agents and GDA will…

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  • Soil Temps and Peanut Herbicides, Fungicide Info

    Soil Temperatures and Planting Below are desired soil temps needed for corn, peanuts, cotton and soybean.  These temperatures need to be an average among several days without threat of colder temperatures in the future. Peanut at 4″ soil depth should be consistent 68 degrees minimum. Cotton at 2″ soil depth should be consistent 65 degrees minimum. Soybean…

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  • 2019 Vegetable Spray Guides

    Click link below for a fungicide spray guide.  These are spray guides only. 2019 watermelon spray guide 2019 Squash spray guid 2019 S GA tomato spray guide 2019 pepper spray guide 2019 Cantaloupe spray guide 2019 Cucumber spray guide 2019 broccoli spray guide  

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  • Pecan Ambrosia Beetles

    Ambrosia beetle traps placed in young pecan trees at the north and south end of the Cook County Thursday (2/21/19) showed heavy ambrosia beetle attacks already.  On the traps are frass filled, bird shot sized holes; some with the “frass toothpicks” coming out of the hole as the beetle chews into the  log trap. Stressed…

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  • 2019 Using Pesticides Wisely Training and Pecan Ambrosia Beetles

    2019 Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) Trainings At the UGA Cotton Production Workshop in Tifton on Wednesday, January 30, the first UPW training will be from 2 – 4 PM in the “Large Auditorium”.  From 4:05 – 4:50 PM a Dicamba Herbicide License Training session will be held in the same location (for applicators to apply…

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