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  • What you Need to Know about Cotton & Generic Base

    On Friday, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 was passed which included the designation of seed cotton as a covered commodity. Landowners will have 90 days to make decisions on generic base conversion for their farms.

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  • Ag Forecast Meetings Help you Prepare for Next Growing Season

    Georgia Ag Forecast is an annual seminar series presented by the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in partnership with the Georgia Center of Innovation for Agribusiness and the Georgia Department of Agriculture. Their goal is to give you an update that will help you prepare for next growing season.

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  • 2018 UGA Ag Budgets

    Please find the budgets discussed today at the Ag Econ Meeting at the link below. The strip till (conservation tillage) and conventional tillage budgets for irrigated and non-irrigated are located within the Row Crop Comparison Tool. Call your county agent if you have any questions with the budgets. https://www.caes.uga.edu/departments/ag-econ/extension/budgets.html

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  • 2017 Tax Reform Law and Agriculture

    Check out this blog from Levi Russell, our Extension Livestock Economist. The information comes from ag tax lawyers, so it is accurate and provides a good place for you to start to evaluate what you need to talk to your accountant about. https://site.extension.uga.edu/aaecext/2018/01/2017-tax-reform-law-and-agriculture/

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  • New Year Cotton Policy Update

    The wheels are in motion to assist cotton farmers on the legislative side. See the info from Don Shurley:

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  • 2018 Corn Short Course

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  • 2018 Jeff Davis County Production Meetings for Growers

    We have the 2018 Production Meetings Scheduled. There may be a couple more added later on as we get requests for other topics or things come up that need to be addressed.

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  • Census of Agriculture

    Be on the lookout for mail from the United States Department of Agriculture! I know all of us hate to do surveys but low input and inaccurate numbers will affect your bank account in the long run.

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  • Wheeler-Telfair County Production Meetings

    All Wheeler County Production Meetings are located at Southern Star Grill on Hwy 341 in McRae, Georgia unless otherwise noted above. Please RSVP the day before the meeting. Call 912-568-7138 or email uge4309@uga.edu.  

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  • GACAA recap and Livestock/Forage News

    GACAA The 2017 Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents (GACAA) annual meeting and professional improvement conference was held in Columbus at the beginning of the month. I competed in the applied research poster competition with research conducted with the Laurens County Agent, Raymond Joyce. We won our competition for our work with creep feeding calves…

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