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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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  • Cook Extension Ag Updates – 1/18/19

    Upcoming UGA Extension Ag Meetings/Events 2019 Corn Short Course. Jan 24 in Tifton. REGISTER Cook Co Cotton Production Meeting – Friday, Feb 1 at 12 Noon. Adel, GA Cook Co Weed Control Meeting – Wed, Feb 20 at 8 AM. Adel, GA Cook Co Watermelon Production Meeting – Thurs, Feb 21 at 12 Noon. –…

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  • Cook County Extension Winter Production Meetings

    Reminders will be mailed closer to these meetings.  Pesticide credits will be available. Peanut Production Update Date: Monday, January 7, 2019 Time: 12 Noon Location: Cook Co Extension Office Meeting Room Speakers: UGA Peanut Specialists Scott Montfort, Mark Abney, Amanda Smith Tobacco Production Update Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Time: 12 Noon Location: Berrien Co…

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  • “Growers Must Adapt to an Evolving Pecan Industry – Lenny Wells”

    “Growers Must Adapt to an Evolving Pecan Industry – Lenny Wells This has been a year for a lot of sobering thought for Georgia pecan growers. We’ve had to deal with a lot. Trade wars, scab pressure, catastrophic storms, and perhaps most frustrating of all, depressed prices in the wake of losing half the state’s…

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  • Blueberry Update in Bacon Co Jan 9

    Pre Register by Dec 21 at 912-632-5601.

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  • Wheat Info and Upcoming Mtgs

    Ideal Post Emergence Timing of Herbicides Relatives to Wheat Development in Georgia Early Wheat Growth – Tillers Ag Forecast Meeting in Tifton Friday, February 1, Tifton, Tifton Campus Conference Center More Information and To Register   Hessian Fly in Wheat You hear about this a lot when selecting wheat varieties but often its never seen…

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