Three Rivers Ag News

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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We now have cotton and soybeans that are resistant to both 2,4-D and Dicamba.  With this technology comes great responsibility among everyone in the agricultural community.  We must use these and all pesticides wisely to protect the technology and our farming operations.
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A Webinar for Georgia Cotton Producers will be held Monday February 19th at 10:00 a.m.  You can also call in if you are not the most technologically savvy.
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I am not an economist so reading through this made my head hurt.  What we do know is that as of the 2018 crop year there will be no more Generic Base.  Generic Base replaced cotton base in the 2014 farm bill
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We have several production updates and other meetings coming up this winter and spring: January 29 Area Cotton Update (Macon County Extension, 12 pm) January 30 2018 Georgia/Florida Soybean & Small Grain Expo (Georgia National Fairgrounds) February 8 Area Corn & Soybean Update (Macon County Extension, 12 pm) February 14…
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