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October 2018

  • Many of you inquire about old pesticides sitting in barns and sheds. Don’t miss your opportunity to properly dispose of these items. The Georgia department of Agriculture will be holding a pesticide waste clean day at Spence Field (site of the Sunbelt Ag Expo) in November. You must pre-register for the event. To find out…

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  • Like they say, “no rest for the weary.”  It looked like we were going to be able to get out of this with fairly dry weather and then here comes the potential for a tropical storm.  If the path of the storm continues, it should hit sometime late on Wednesday and affect us through Thursday…

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  • Below is a post from the blog of UGA climatologist Pam Knox. Her blog is very useful and can be found at the following link: Pam Knox CASE Blog If you have not been paying attention to the tropics this week, now is the time to start. Tropical Storm Michael has formed in the Gulf…

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  • Peanut harvest is going very well from the feedback I have been getting. I would like to make a few comments on maturity and harvest. While checking maturity on the board, peanuts planted from April to the first 3-4 days of may were mature at 137-145 DAP (Days after planting). Peanuts from May 5 and on…

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  • October 1, 2018  Market Facilitation Program: What is available to cover my marketing losses from trade tariffs? Yangxuan Liu Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Georgia U.S. Department of Agriculture releases details about the spending plans for $12 billion in trade aid package for farmers. The main component of the aid package is…

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