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The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) has partnered with the Frankel Agency, an independent marketing firm, to conduct brand research to improve our visibility and digital marketing presence. Frankel and CAES would like to hear from you to best understand your perceptions of both the CAES and UGA Extension brand. Your answers…
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Watermelon Production Meeting Speakers: Dr. Ted McAvoy – UGA Extension Vegetable Specialist and Dr. Bhabesh Dutta – UGA Extension Vegetable Disease Specialist When: January 30, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. Location: Turner County Extension Office Peanut Production Meeting Speakers: Dr. Bob Kemerait – UGA Plant Pathology Extension Specialist, Dr. Scott Monfort – UGA Extension Peanut Agronomist,…
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“Registration is now open for the 2023 Georgia Ag Forecast, which will be held Jan. 27 at the University of Georgia Tifton Conference Center on the UGA Tifton campus. A live virtual option will also be available.” To register for this event, click on the following link. https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/10114/2023-ag-forecast.html
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The 2023 UGA crop enterprise budgets have been released and can be viewed on the following link. https://agecon.uga.edu/extension/budgets.html
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Georgia Organic Conference will be held February 16th – 18th at Georgia National Fairgrounds. If you are interested in attending you will be able to use the following link to register. https://www.georgiaorganics.org/conference
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December 24-28 was one of those freeze events that we knew would come. To some extent, every citrus variety has suffered from cold-damage due to this recent 5-night freeze event. The site of our citrus research plots in Valdosta reached a low of 16 degrees which is the lowest I have recorded since the trials…
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In recent years we have had very encouraging results with micronized sulfur used as a mixing partner with several different fungicides for leaf spot control. In many cases, mixing with sulfur has provided control comparable to (and sometimes better than) as mixing with 1 pint of a 720 formulation of chlorothalonil for leaf spot control…
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Dr. Culpepper recently gave you his 2 cents worth about the control of goosegrass in the most recent UGA Cotton Newsletter – July 2022 (https://www.ugacotton.com/vault/file/July-2022-Cotton-Team-Newsletter.pdf). Thought I would add my 3 cents worth as well since my ears are also bleeding from all the phone calls. 1) The #1 enemies of POST herbicide applications are…
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A few things for you to consider, fresh from the field: 1) New technologies are great but you can control weeds without it. Nothing beats starting clean, using a strong residual herbicide (activated with moisture) at planting, followed by a timely POST (with more residual). The Palmer amaranth population in these soybean plots is both…
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