Three Rivers Ag News

Many have heard that FSA offices would be open.  Well that is true but it is only certain offices.  In a press release U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that many Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices will reopen temporarily in the coming days to perform certain limited services for…
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If you have been able to get in wheat planted weed control is going to be the first issue.  Our specialists have given us great recommendations based on the weeds that give you trouble each growing season.
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It is the time of year when we get to bring information to the farming community to hopefully help them make better decisions and be more profitable in the upcoming growing seasons.  You also get free meals, pesticide credit and get to hang out with the best County Agents in the State!
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Back in October the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is extending the registration of dicamba for two years for “over-the-top” use to control weeds in fields for cotton and soybean plants genetically engineered to resist dicamba. This action was informed by input from and extensive collaboration between EPA, state regulators, farmers, academic researchers, pesticide manufacturers, and other stakeholders.
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Don’t throw away any mail you get from the Georgia Department of Agriculture it could be a very important password.  
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Saturday December 1st the Taylor County 4-H Shooting Sports Team will host a sporting clays event at the Watson Lake House.  On site registration begins at 8:00 a.m. but we encourage pre-registration so we can get your team t-shirts.
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Georgia Clean Day is a program that gives everyone an opportunity to discard old, unusable, or cancelled pesticides to a hazardous waste contractor for disposal.
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Although southern corn rust has finally made its way in to Georgia most local growers don’t need to be worried.

Courtesy of Department of Plant Pathology, NC State University
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Usually by now we are spraying for thrips in peanuts and cotton.  Well, I think that the thrips have drowned!  The abundance of recent rain will likely impact diseases and other problems that we see in our crops for the next few weeks. Just in case you do not subscribe…
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Several fungal diseases affect wheat grown in Georgia.  Powdery mildew, rust and fusarium head blight can all cause yield losses if left untreated.  Powdery mildew is a disease that we see every year, however it rarely causes enough damage to apply fungicides.  this year it appears that the cooler March…
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