Corn
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From event brochure (partly pictured below): “I’m excited about this year’s corn short course and annual meeting of the Georgia Corn Growers Association. I hope you will plan to attend and bring a fellow grower. This year’s sessions will focus on new research and what it takes to optimize your profits under the expected prices…
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From Amanda Smith, UGA Ag & Applied Economics: “The 2020 Row Crop Budgets have been posted online along with the 2020 Row Crop Comparison Tool. Remember that these budgets are an estimate of costs for the upcoming year. We advise farmers to adjust the numbers to reflect their actual prices to help them best estimate…
Posted in: Beans, Corn, Cotton, Cover Crops, Economics, Fertility, Forage/Pasture, Grain Sorghum, Grains/Small Grain, Peanuts, Pecans, Soybeans -
There were over 30 UPW trainings last year for producers/applicators of the new auxin technologies to meet the federal label requirements for chemicals such as the dicamba products (Engenia, FeXapan, and XtendiMax) in GA. For more info (labels, attendance lists from last year’s meetings, and to check your status) click this GDA link: https://agr.georgia.gov/24c.aspx As…
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Five meetings, five locations, and a multitude of guest speakers will allow this upcoming year’s Ag Forecast to create a larger discussion than ever before as we head into much uncertainty with GA’s number one industry. Highlights about the meetings: Jeffrey Dorfman, the state fiscal economist for Georgia, to serve as keynote speaker at 4…
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What is TAG, from their webpage: “Team Agriculture Georgia (TAG) is a coalition of USDA agencies, state departments, and community organizations working together to provide educational resources that will enhance the resilience of the state’s small farmers. Supported by a grant from the USDA Risk Management Agency, we will host three free workshops for new…
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By Rome Ethredge Late planted Grain Sorghum is maturing now and looks ok where it got some rain. Where it didn’t get much, the yield is progressively lower but better than dryland corn. White sugarcane aphids came into some fields early but in many, as in below pictured field, populations weren’t high until after black…
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Corn after Corn in the Same Year By: Rome Ethredge Second crop of corn this year is a mixed bag in Georgia. In some cases we had too little nitrogen early and some was tied up in organic matter from a tall and leafy first crop. We also had fields where disease severely affected the…
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Yesterday saw great information being shared among producers, crop insurance agents, FSA- and UGA- representatives at the joint producer meeting in Tifton. The conversations were civil though some frustrations remained about the delay in ECP payments as well as the intricacies of payment for pecan yeild loss & damage under WHIP/WHIP+. This meeting will be…
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A joint meeting between FSA and UGA will be held in in seven different locations between Oct 8-11th to talk about three major government support programs. At these production meetings representatives from both organizations will be on hand to answer questions about WHIP+, MFP and ARC/PLC. Flyer with locations and times below: Dr. Adam Rabinowitz,…
Posted in: Corn, Cotton, Economics, Forestry/Timber/Pines, Livestock, Peanuts, Pecans, Vegetables, Weather