{"id":2436,"date":"2025-10-09T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:24:36","slug":"weekly-update-10-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/2025\/10\/weekly-update-10-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 10\/10\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October is a busy month for us all. Last week and this week were filled with livestock show duties, and next week I will be at the Expo for the entire week. I am the VP for the Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents (GACAA), and part of my duties includes managing our Expo Food Booth, so if you&#8217;re down at Sunbelt, swing by and get a BBQ sandwich and a honeybun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cotton:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dodging a little rain and overcast weather is the story of this week. I really like 3 clear days for the defoliant to work really well. The forecast looks clear for the next few days, and it will be a bit cooler at night next week. Reminder about rainfree periods \u2013 thidiazuron is the biggy here. It needs 24 hours, but can be reduced to 12 hours when mixed with a phosphate (i.e. Folex\/DEF). Thoughts on rates for next week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I still think we need to be in the 4+ oz\/acre range with our Dropp. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Folex\/DEF, 10-12oz. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethephon needs to be in the 32 to 42 oz\/acre range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>Peanut:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Peanuts are still tracking the same, mid-140s for 06s, TifNVs, and late 150s for 12Ys.<\/span> I haven&#8217;t heard any yields or grades this week, but last week&#8217;s sounded really good. The pressure washer will be set up next week, but I will not be at the office until Friday. Regan will be there throughout the week to assist y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is a busy month for us all. Last week and this week were filled with livestock show duties, and next week I will be at the Expo for the entire week. I am the VP for the Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents (GACAA), and part of my duties includes managing our Expo Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}