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  • Candler-Evans Production Meetings 2025

    The Candler and Evans County Extension Offices are excited to announce a series of valuable crop production meetings scheduled for this winter. These sessions are designed to provide growers with the latest research, insights, and practical advice for managing cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and pecan crops in the upcoming season. Whether you’re a seasoned farmer or…

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  • Statewide Cotton Variety Trial Results 2024

    Here are the results from the UGA Statewide Cotton Variety Trial for 2024. Statewide Cotton Variety Trial 2024

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  • Funding Opportunity for Specialty Crop Producers

    Overview of the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) Program The Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) Program, administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) using Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds, offers marketing assistance payments to eligible specialty crop producers. This funding is aimed at expanding domestic specialty crop markets and developing new markets for…

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  • USDA Disaster Relief Programs from Hurricane Helene

    Do you have livestock? Do you have planted pines? Do you have pecan orchards for commercial use? Do you have blueberries, blackberries, olive trees, citrus trees? The USDA has 6 programs available to provide disaster relief from Hurrican Helene Damage. Please get in touch with your local USDA office to sign up for assistance. The…

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  • Cotton and Peanut Maturity Update Breakfast

    Please contact the Evans or Candler County Extension Office to reserve your plate for the breakfast. Evans Office – 912-739-1292 Candler Office – 912-685-2408

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  • Candler/Evans Sandy Soils Cotton Plots

    The Candler and Evans County sandy soil cotton plots signs are up for both the Candler and Evans County plots. The goal of these plots are to identify which cotton varieties perform the best in sandy soils. The Evans County plot has 10 varieties and the Candler plot has 9 varieties. Please take some time…

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  • Southeast GA Citrus Update August 9, 2024

    The Southeast GA Citrus Update will be held on August 9, 2024 at the Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center. The meeting will start at 9:30 with speakers indoors and then a tour of the research orchard after lunch. Please RSVP to reserve your lunch plate by calling the Tattnall or Evans County Extension Offices.…

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  • Food Plot Workshop @ GGIC in Metter

    We will be hosting a local food plot workshop at the GGIC in Metter, GA on August 28, 2024. Please RSVP to ensure that you recieve a plate for lunch. Bob and I did this program virtually back in 2021 and it was a really great program.

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  • Southeast GA Pecan Press July 2024

    Check on the latest edition of the Southeast Georgia Pecan Press brought to you by the pecan agent team.

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  • Cotton Team Newsletter June 2024

    Check out the June edition of the cotton team newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter – http://www.ugacotton.com/vault/file/June-Cotton-Team-Newsletter.pdf

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