Forage/Pasture
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The Ag Forecast in Tifton was last Friday. Below are handouts which recap the “takeaways” for each commodity covered: The meeting started with call outs to all the VIP’s in the audience like Reps from Sam Perdue’s office, local Chamber of Commerce members, Rep Austin Scott and many more. Austin Scott said a few words…
Posted in: Corn, Cotton, Economics, Forage/Pasture, Forestry/Timber/Pines, Grains/Small Grain, Livestock, Peanuts, Pecans, Soybeans, Vegetables -
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 -
By: Rome Ethredge Ratooned Grain Sorghum Harvested milo will regrow new grain heads with soil moisture and heat. This field has harvested on Sept 1 and then just left and nothing more done except some strips mowed. It regrew stalks and heads and produced some grain. If grower had fertilized and maybe sprayed herbicide, a…
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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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At the time of writing, rain is falling consistently for the first time in weeks. With slower rainfall, the extended duration of this event, than say a summer afternoon soaker more water will infiltrate our soils….less run off. So much could be said about this rain. Depending on its duration and intensity the next few…
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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…
Posted in: Corn, Cotton, Economics, Forage/Pasture, Forestry/Timber/Pines, Grains/Small Grain, Livestock, Peanuts, Pecans, Soybeans, Vegetables, Weather -
Our Crisp Co Extension office was fortunate enough to be allotted one of the 24 UGA internship positions this past summer. All of these internships consisted of students from CAES, ABAC, GA Southern U & others institutions being paired up with an Extension agent for 12 weeks. The greatest advantage participating students walk away with…