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…
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UGA publishes production guides annually for many of the state’s top commodities. Later in the year or after the first of the new year (2020) we can get printed copies to hand out at production meetings. In the meantime, you can visit CAES’s Grains website to get a digital copy…
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By Rome Ethredge Soybeans Full season soybeans are approaching R7 in many cases. R7, also called the Beginning maturity stage of soybean development, is when you have pretty good leaf yellowing and dropping and most importantly at least one pod per plant turning brown or tan. Pods first loose their…
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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…
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UGA conducts annual in-field assessments on varieties of many important commodities including our row crops and winter cover crops. This information assists producers in making planting choices based on maturity date, height, weight, bloom date and yield averages. Below is a link to the SVT home page. Once there, click…
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