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The following is from Dr. Lenny Wells, Professor of Horticulture and Extension Horticulture Specialist for pecans at the University of Georgia. We have been busy over the last week hedge pruning our orchards and research plots at the UGA Ponder Farm near Tifton. Hedge pruning generates a lot of limbs that must be disposed of.…
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Jake Price, UGA Citrus agent has some tips to help protect citrus from the cold over the next few days. The upcoming freeze events will be one of the biggest challenges faced so far by Georgia and northern Florida citrus growers. In past years we have experienced one or two nights of temperatures in the…
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Here is an article by Andrew Sawyer Southeast Georgia Area Pecan Agent discussing different pre-emergent herbicides and price comparisons.
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Here is an article from Dr. Lenny Wells describing shuck split on Stuart. I’ve had a lot of calls over the last 3 weeks about Stuarts lagging behind and not opening. However, I don’t think they are actually behind as much as it seems they are. Stuart always has an interrupted and prolonged shuck split…
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Luckily, Tattnall County didn’t get impacted much from Ian, however, we did need some rain that never came. Here is an article by Dr. Lenny Wells discussing late season irrigation needs on pecan trees. We were fortunate to dodge a bullet in the form of Hurricane Ian. Before the storm track began to take a…
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I have recently had some calls about boll shed on cotton that has began cutting out. Here is a good article from the August edition of The UGA Cotton newsletter discussing aspects of why this can happen. In the last newsletter, I discussed the effects of environmental stress on physiologicalprocesses in cotton. I did so…
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