FSA and UGA Agricultural Economics will be holding joint producer meetings throughout the state on 3 major government support programs.
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Posts by Jeff Cook
2019 will be the 30th Anniversary of Swisher International and the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition to have the honor to salute the agricultural community and industry with the Swisher Sweets / Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year Award. In the previous 29 years, many of agriculture’s top business leaders, innovators,…
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If you didn’t never got a trophy, plaque or certificate growing up we are going to take care of you this growing season.
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On March 15, UGA Extension Specialists along with the Georgia Dept. of Agriculture staff will be conducting a Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training in Valdosta. This is the training mandated by growers selling fresh produce that must comply with the Produce Safety Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act in order to sell produce.
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I am monitoring AgroClimate.org (http://agroclimate.org/tools/chill-hours-calculator/) as well as other sources for projected chill as of today 1/2/2018 we are around 500 hours which is nearly 100 hours behind our historic average on chill. If you follow the projected chill probabilities we could be anywhere between 700 and 900 hours by…
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Once again I had to change my Peach Meeting agenda. Click the link to see the corrected agenda, and make plans to attend.
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