Please read below from the Dr. Lenny Wells and the UGA Pecan blog about a new fungicide for pecan management in 2020. It’s too late to help us for this year, but there is a new fungicide labeled for pecans that provides a totally new chemistry for us to use…
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There has been a lot of harvesting of peanuts in Worth County this week. With this, we have been checking a lot of peanut maturity samples. Even with the heat speeding up cotton maturity, peanuts appear to be on schedule as normal. There are some dryland fields and different situations…
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There has been some defoliating starting in the county, as well as some places being harvested. Listed below are some good references on determining defoliation by UGA Cotton Agronomist Dr. Jared Whitaker. Here is a reference on recommended defoliation rates of the “Three-way” for early season defoliation….
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Following is a weather update from our UGA Climatologist, as Dorian nears. There are many unknowns. We are very early in the harvest season, and hopefully we will not have major effects from the storm, but we will watch and wait. Weather Update: Pam Knox, Director, UGA Weather Network and…
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Cotton/Peanut Research Field Day – September 4, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. (from Georgia Peanut & Cotton Commission press release) The Georgia Cotton Commission, Georgia Peanut Commission and the University of Georgia Extension Cotton and Peanut Teams, will co-sponsor a joint research field day on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Tifton,…
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There are not many soybeans in the county, but there are some in the north end of the county. The soybeans that are planted, are ultra-late varieties. When planting this late it is important to keep in mind to plant maturity groups like VI, VII, or VIII. It is also…
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Worth County growers, we have many thing going on this week. CORN Corn harvest has been going strong. Rain events have slowed harvest in places, but corn is coming out of the field quickly in many parts of the county. PEANUTS We began peanut maturity clinics this week at the…
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Attached below is our scheduled days and times of our peanut maturity clinics with the locations. Peanut Clinic Schedule 2019
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Worth County cotton producers can plan to attend the cotton defoliation meeting on Thursday, August 22, 2019. See the details below.
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