The 2020 Crop Budgets have been posted online. The Crop Comparison Tool has also been posted online. You can find them at this link. https://agecon.uga.edu/extension/budgets.html Contact me if you have any questions.
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The 2020 Crop Budgets have been posted online. The Crop Comparison Tool has also been posted online. You can find them at this link. https://agecon.uga.edu/extension/budgets.html Contact me if you have any questions.
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Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is great year for everyone! Here is the 2020 Laurens County Production Meeting Schedule. Please be sure you call the Extension office and register for the meetings. Pesticide recertification credits will be available. 2020 First Quarter ANR Commerical Meetings Schedule
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The latest Weekly Crop Progress and Condition Report is available. Crop-Weather-Report-October-7-2019
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I have received several calls about caterpillars in soybean fields. Scout fields soybean fields using a sweep net or ground/drop cloth. If you don’t have either, you can order them online. To know when to spray, I have attached the current UGA Extension thresholds for insects that cause damage in…
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The August 2019 UGA Cotton Team Newsletter contains articles on Scout and Use Thresholds (Phillip Roberts), Irrigating Cotton Through Bloom (Wes Porter), Be Timely at Harvest (Mark Freeman) and August is an Important Month for Diseases and Nematodes (Bob Kemerait). Newsletter UGA Cotton Team August 2019
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Last week the USDA announced the 2019 trade assistance payment rates for the Market Facilitation Program. The attached publication contains the following helpful information: Details of the county based payment rate and potential maximum payments by county for non-specialty crops. Most notably for Georgia this includes producers of cotton, peanuts,…
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The agenda has been set for the annual Vidalia Onion Production Meeting. Please join us on Thursday, August 15th, 2019 at 12:00 noon at the Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center. We will have lunch, sponsored by AgSouth, and some very timely updates for onion growers and the industry. onion-production-meeting-flyer-draft
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The 2019 Corn Silage and Forage Field Day will be held at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center on June 20, 2019. There is NO charge for the field day but you are asked to pre-register online to get a ballpark figure for refreshments and lunch. Additional information can be…
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A final Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) meeting will be conducted at the Tifton Campus Conference Center on May 21, 2019 beginning at 1:30 pm. Similar to previous meetings and immediately after the UPW meeting, Extension agents and GDA will also offer an applicators license training for those individuals who do…
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The May 2019 UGA Cotton Team Newsletter contains articles on Crop Progress and Assessing Plant Stands for Replanting, Herbicides and Dusting in Cotton Can Be a Mighty Challenge, Palmer Amaranth Influences Tarnished Plant Bug Infestations in Cotton, Thrips Foliar Sprays and Managing Nematodes in Your Cotton Crop: What You Do…
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