Vegetables

  • Thanks to everyone who came out to Crisp’s 2020 Watermelon Production meeting. Special thanks to our sponsors, caterer (Gay’s Seafood) and speakers. The UGA speakers are listed below along with Andre’s presentation linked: Dr. Abi Hajihassani Dr. Bhabesh Dutta Dr. Andre da Silva – Presentation For a research update from the GWA visit their website…

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  • GDA will be preforming another Produce Safety Rule Training at Feb 25th hosted by the Lowndes Co Extension Office. Please if you’re a produce grower who meets the “Who Should Attend” criteria listed on the below flyer, and you haven’t attended one of these meetings in the past few year, consider RSVP’ing. Here’s the registration…

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  • Ag Forecast Recap – 2020

    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…

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  • Upcoming Local Events

    I know y’all are soil sampling, selling equipment, buying implements, watching the forecast/rain, making planting choices….etc. On top of your daily routine there’s all these meetings to keep track of. We had a wonderful turnout for this past Mondays Peanut meeting, over 50 people. Will be sending out the info from the meeting soon. SE…

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  • 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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  • 2020 GA Ag Forecast

    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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  • Two weeks ago the Ga Fruit & Veggie Growers Association offered a two day event in Tifton with thirteen speakers covering topics including H2A, wages & hours audits, MSPA and other legislation from the Department of Labor. A written synopsis of the labor forum can be found here: https://www.gfvga.org/news/477899/2019-Ag-Labor-Relations-Forum.htm Also, to learn more about the…

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  • Below is linked a great publication by Dr. Esendugue Greg Fonsah, along with many other specialists and researchers, dealing with the economics of vegetable production. It contains budgets with a thorough list of variable costs for commodities like: sweet corn, carrots, onions, tomatoes, snap beans, etc. More after the jump: https://agecon.uga.edu/content/dam/caes-subsite/ag-econ/documents/extension/publications/Vegetable%20Production%20Guide.pdf Thanks! Best Wishes, Joshua…

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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,…

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