Economics
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Summary from Dr. Lawton Stewart, UGA Extension Animal Scientist: You are invited to the 9th Annual Northeast Georgia Beef Cattle Short Course on February 12th. This year’s short course has a great program including seminars and demonstrations. All the details, including the program, location, and registration information is located at ugabeef.com/athens. If you have any question…
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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 -
Hope y’all had a wonderful Christmas, New Year’s, and holiday season overall! Now in 2020 I want to share the final list of production meetings in and around Crisp Co. Below you’ll find a flyer with meetings listed. Many of y’all will be getting this schedule in the mail too. Please RSVP to each meeting…
Posted in: Cotton, Disease, Economics, Fertility, Forage/Pasture, Insect, Pecans, Soybeans, Watermelon, Weed Science -
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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Andrew Sawyer, UGA SE District Area Pecan Agent, has just released his last electronic updates for 2019 by publishing the December issue of the SE GA Pecan Update Newsletter. Below find links to both this months and November’s Newsletters along with a link to a radio interview with Dr. Tim Brenneman looking back on Scab…
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With representatives in each District of the state, the Forage Team’s (consisting of Agents and Specialists) Newsletters cover a wide range of relevant topics. Below is a summary of what is included in this month’s edition: Be a good hay shopper – Charotte Meeks, Houston CEA Should I burn my hayfield? – Jeremy Kichler, Colquitt…
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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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Back in April I mailed out a letter describing the EPA training changes for “users” of paraquat dichloride. A “user” being anyone associated with the handling, mixing, applying, and etc. paraquat products (i.e. Gramoxone). Highlights include: To use paraquat (Gramoxone, Helmquat, Parazone, Firestorm, etc.) you must be a certified applicator AND pass an online training.…
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