Wiley Ross Greene
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Come join us next Wednesday August 9, 2023 for the Midville Field Day at the Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center in Midville, GA. The field day starts at 9 am. If you wish to attend you can pre-register by clicking the link listed below. Click here to register
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Come join us for the Southeast District Citrus Update on Friday July 28, 2023 at the Vidalia Onion Research Center. The meeting will begin at 9:30 and will last until 2pm. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP for catering purposes. You can contact Ross Greene, the Evans County Office, or the Candler County Office to…
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Posted in: Cotton
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I just wanted to send out a reminder about the upcoming cattle meeting. We are hosting a cattle and forage update on July 18, 2023 in Metter. The meeting will take place at Georgia Grown Innovation Center and will start around 9 am. We will serve a lunch and we ask that attendees call ahead…
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture is going to gold one last Using Pesticides Wisely training in Tifton, GA for individuals that still need to complete the training for this year. The UPW meeting will be at the UGA Tifton Conference Center on June 8, 2023 from 1:30-3:00 pm.
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We are hosting a cattle and forage update on July 18, 2023 in Metter. The meeting will take place at Georgia Grown Innovation Center and will start around 9 am. We will serve a lunch and we ask that attendees call ahead to reserve a spot to assist us with making sure there will be…
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Pam Knox is the Director of the UGA Weather Network and Agricultural Climatologist for the College of Ag. and Environmental Sciences at University of Georgia. Pam posted this on her weather blog last week, and I am resharing it here for you to read her comments on the weather for the upcoming growing season. If…
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Students at Metter Elementary and Metter Middle School celebrated National Agriculture Week on Friday, March 24 at an Ag Day hosted by Candler County UGA Extension and MES and MMS Agriculture Teachers. Throughout the day, classes of students visited with exhibitors to learn more about agriculture in Georgia and locally in Candler County. 1,584 students…
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The Using Pesticides Wisely training for Candler and Evans Counties will be offered on March 14, 2023 in Statesboro at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center, 847 Plant Dr, Statesboro, GA 30458. This is located on the Georgia Southern campus. This training is mandatory for all applicators to apply dicamba herbicides over the top of row crops.…
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Two local cotton plots were planted in the 2022 crop season. The Candler-Evans County ANR Agent Ross Greene cooperated with Bird Farms of Metter, GA and Gray Rogers Farm of Claxton, GA to plant two dryland cotton plots in fields that were considered to be sandy soils. The objective of these cotton trials is to…