I want to share this article written by Casey Cox, Growing America which was published on January 8, 2019. It is of course heartbreaking and so difficult to fathom this destruction and damage: Imagine if you are preparing for this season’s harvest and, overnight, the price of corn drops to $0.09 / bushel….
Read More
Thanks to the Georgia Forestry Commission for leading the way estimating our losses. Because of so much ‘severe’ and ‘catastrophic’ damage, the numbers changed quite a bit. They ranged from 1/3 to 1 billion dollar loss for Georgia. We are below a billion for sure. Those numbers are already hard…
Read More
The Georgia Forestry Commission is hosting a meeting for forest landowners who sustained damage to their forestland from Hurricane Michael. GFC and our partners will discuss how landowners can proceed with salvage and recovery, including cost share opportunities. Date: November 13 Time: 9:30 – 12:30 Location: W.N. ‘Newt’ Hudson Agriculture…
Read More
Thanks to so many people, we had the best time Tuesday at our forestry meeting. This was a program we did before I moved to Wilcox County, and I was hoping we could continue it here. The county has 69% of our total land being in forested acres. According to the…
Read More
We were out looking at longleaf pine seedlings established on a plantation south of town. They have just planted around 12,000 longleaf pines. They are planting at 720 trees per acre. The trees are placed 6 freet from one another and rows are 10 feet apart. This will allow space…
Read More
I got to look at some pine trees this week in Abbeville. I love being in the shade of pine trees when it is this hot and dry. These are 17-year-old longleaf pine that we are raking pine straw from. The description on the phone sounded like pitch canker, but…
Read More
Here is a 10 year old loblolly stand with cankers on the branches. It is a bad hit with fusiform rust. This pathogen spreads by wind blown spores and goes back and with oak trees as an alternative host. Pine trees hit within the first 5 years normally kill the tree….
Read More
This is a chance for foresters and landowners to meet the new GA Forestry Commissioner Chuck Williams when he and lobbyist Andres Villegas will hold town hall meetings throughout December 2017. If you would like to attend any meeting, e-mail tom@gfagrow.org.
Read More
Wilcox County has so much land under forestry production. I enjoyed working with forestry in my previous county and keep my eye on the trees. As I’m driving paved roads, dirt roads and no roads in the county, this symptom of brown needles is almost every single stand and age…
Read More