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  • Production Meetings/Pesticide Credit Opportunities  Check on your pesticide credits – you don’t want your license to expire. If you have a pesticide license and you attend any of the meetings listed below you will receive credit if you fill out the sign-in sheet. To maintain your private license, you must earn 3 credit hours within…

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  • Tifton Beef Cattle Short Course Please join us on March 3rd for the annual Tifton Beef Cattle Short Course in Irwinville, GA! The Short Course will be held one day before the 62nd Annual Tifton Bull Evaluation Sale. This year’s we have another great program covering timely topics in beef cattle production.  The registration covers the…

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  • UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS January 7, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. – Irwin County Corn and Soybean Production Meeting at Chicken Delight in Ocilla, GA (Turner County Producers are welcome to attend this meeting) January 9-12, 2020 – Southeast Fruit & Vegetable Conference in Savannah, GA January 16, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. – 44th Annual GA…

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  • The 2020 Corn Short Course and Annual Meeting of The Georgia Corn Growers Association Program will be held at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center on January 21, 2020. Complete event details and registration information can be found by clicking here.

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  • Georgia Cotton Commission 13th Annual Meeting and Cotton Production Workshop The Georgia Cotton Commission is pleased to announce the guest speakers at the Commission’s 13th Annual Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, January 29, 2020, at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center. The annual meeting is held in conjunction with the UGA Cotton Production Workshop conducted by…

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  • Georgia Ag Forecast

    The 2020 Ag Forecast series will begin next month. The closest Ag Forecast event to Turner County will be in Tifton on January 31 at the Tifton Campus Conference Center. This year’s keynote speaker will be State Fiscal Economist of Georgia Jeffery Dorfman. Registration is $25 per person. Complete event details and registration information can…

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  • The GrassMasters program is a 7 – week long series of seven educational workshops that focus on forage production. Workshops are held every Monday beginning on January 27th at the Ben Hill County Senior Citizen Center. This program is an INTRODUCTION to forage production systems and is highly recommended for those of you just getting your…

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  • We have finalized most of our 2020 production meeting details. This upcoming year Turner County cotton and peanut production meetings will be held together. In 2021, we look forward to holding individual meetings for both cotton and peanuts. However, since cotton and peanuts are the two largest crops in the county we are currently looking…

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  • Syngenta’s New Gramoxone 3SL (Paraquat) Formulation                                          Prostko Syngenta recently received a label for their new formulation of paraquat sold under the trade name of Gramoxone 3SL (3 lb ai/gal). As you may recall from a…

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  • Organic Row-Crop Workshop

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