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Thanks so much to Doug Harvey letting us come to the farm and watch this pruning demonstration by Dr. Wells. Thanks to all who attended the meeting. I thought I’d share these photos with some of the methods we learned yesterday:
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It’s been a pecan week this week! We had a good meeting followed by an awesome pruning training. We wanted to do this a few weeks ago, but cold weather got us. We still had a good number of folks that wanted to see Dr. Wells destroy these 3-year-old Ellis trees. Dr. Lenny Wells had a…
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We had a wonderful pecan meeting yesterday in Pineview. We got to hear from the UGA Pecan Team, and eat some great food. A couple of years ago Dr. Lenny Wells posted a short discussion of why pecans need a pollinator. Dr. Wells showed us this slide yesterday and says he gets many questions about the best pollinator to choose…
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As we move through the winter, we need to pay attention to a magnesium deficiency in cows. Grass tetany usually occurs after a period of cold weather and high levels of nitrogen and potassium fertilization. It occurs on forage with low Mg availability. The most susceptible livestock are mature lactating cows. It’s a metabolic disorder that can…
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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. Loblolly and slash pines are…
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Of all our small grain, oats are showing the most cold injury. They are a little MORE susceptible to freeze, and this is a pretty open area. You could almost see a tint across this yield the same way you mow with dull mower blades. The good news is that we are still in the…
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Earlier this week, we were looking at this rye that has headed out across the field. This is often typical of our rye getting away from us. You can see cold injury on the leaves and on the heads. We were thinking that our dry November and December has put us under some stress and…
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Thanks to UGA Cotton Extension Agronomist Dr. Jared Whitaker and agronomist Mark Freeman, we can look at the results of last year’s on-farm cotton variety trials. Many county agents participate in these trials which helps add data from across the state. We planted it in Thomas County last year, and I hope to continue you…
Posted in: Cotton