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Here are some pictures from in and outside of Wilcox County this week. It has been warm for 2 weeks straight and lots of trees blooming….. a lot of trees, except pecans… However, pecan won’t be long here, I’ve heard that some hit budbreak in Thomas County this week… Small Grain Weed Control looks Good…
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Our new FFA teacher Addie Tucker is doing a great job in Wilcox County. She worked with us, the high school and middle school and her parents and students to put together a local livestock show. They invited all the middle school kids so they could get to see students show their animals and how they work with…
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We almost got behind on sidedressing because of the rain, but we needed the rain. We were trying to decide if we should split our sidedressing or not. In many fields, we had good tillering anyway. In other fields, triticale and oats have “taken off” and UGA Grain Agronomist Dr. Regan Noland said to just go…
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A few questions about burning down our cover this week. This is because the warm temperatures and concerns over it taking off. Here is some rye cover that was planted in late October. It’s heading out and holding in soil moisture. This rye won’t be baled and taken off the land, but rather planting into…
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Here is a picture of some cold injury on oats back in January. I’ve been looking at oats for grain and grazing across the county, and saw a good bit of cold injury. It was all of the sudden that everything just came out of it. This picture was taken in January, about a week…
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I was out with Mr. Larry Gibbs yesterday, and he and I made some ambrosia beetle traps to monitor ambrosia beetles for his young pecans. With the loss of young pecans two and three year ago from AAB, UGA Entomologist Dr. Will Hudson advises growers to place traps to monitor their first flight. AAB live all…
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This morning I went by the river, and it is way up high. It’s more than half the width it normally would be where I am standing here. In this spot, I would normally walk out half way into that picture. We had about 5 inches of rain at my house over the past two weeks.…
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With the 2018 season approaching, there are some changes made that will affects farmers and landowners. Click the links below to learn more from UGA Extension Economists Dr. Don Shurley and Dr. Adam Rabinowitz: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 MYA Prices and Calculating Payments with Seed Cotton PL UGA Extension Economists are working on…
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We’ve been fighting the spider mites for the last few weeks in the strawberries. They are reproducing, and this is giving us trouble. This week, we got a better kill though. They were even active after the very cold weather 3 weeks ago. I’m mostly seeing two-spotted spider mites, but a few predatory mites i’m…