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  • Paraquat Trainings for 2024

    Certified applicators must successfully complete an EPA-approved training program before mixing, loading, and/or applying paraquat, as required by the EPA’s Paraquat Dichloride Human Health Mitigation Decision. The training provides important information about paraquat’s toxicity, new label requirements and restrictions, and the consequences of misuse. Training is required every 3 years. If an applicator needs the…

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  • Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) updates their deer management plan every 5-6 years, and the time for them to update the deer management plan has arrived. As a part of this, they have developed an online survey to gather input (link below). It is rather long, but there are important parts to this survey…

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  • Worth County 4-H and FFA Hog Show and Sale

    The Worth County 4-H and FFA Hog Show will be tomorrow, Saturday, March 2, 2024, beginning at 11:00 a.m. We welcome anyone in the community and county to come out and give your support to these youth and their livestock projects. This year there will be a show pig sale on Monday, March 4, starting…

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  • We had a great turnout at the UPW training today in Worth County for our applicators. This training is required for applicators prior to applying in-crop dicamba products on cotton and/or soybeans in 2024. If an applicator was not able to join us this morning, make sure to attend one of the other trainings. Other…

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  • Cattle producers, this is just a few miles away from us! Don’t miss out. If you would like to register for either of these days or to get more information, click on: UGA Beef Programs, then select Short Courses or Live Animal Programs. Location: Tifton Bull Evaluation Center, Irwinville Address: 2347 GA HWY 32 West,…

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  • The Using Pesticides Wisely trainings for 2024 have been scheduled. Worth County Extension will host one of these trainings on Friday, March 1, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. at the Worth County Ag Pavilion, but applicators may attend any training listed below at their convenience. Contact the host location to RSVP, spaces may be limited. “As…

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  • Upcoming Worth County Extension Production Meetings

    We are looking forward to more Extension grower meetings coming up soon. Mark your calendars for these upcoming production meetings! Pesticide recertification credits and certified crop advisor (CCA) CEU’s will be available at these meetings. *Please contact the Worth County Extension Office at 229-776-8216 if you plan to attend.

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  • Recent Extension Production Meetings

    Worth County Extension has recently hosted two producer meetings. The Worth County Extension Peanut Production meeting was held on January 23, 2024. Dr. Scott Monfort, Dr. Mark Abney, and Dr. Glen Harris gave the latest update on peanut varieties and practices, insects and diseases, and peanut fertility needs. There was also an update from the…

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  • Worth Ag Update for August 18, 2023

    Many situations are occurring in crops over the last week or two. Corn harvest has begun and is progressing well between some rain events. Cotton Update: A few more fields have reached the silverleaf whitefly (SLWF) threshold this week. This pest is starting to spread out further in the county, so keep an eye out…

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  • Peanut Disease and Insect Update for August

    Dr. Bob Kemerait, UGA Peanut Pathologist If the growing season was like a football game, many of our growers would now be early in the 3rd quarter. Our home team is the “Peanut Crop” and today we would be playing the “Pests”, a team primarily composed of weeds, insects, diseases, and nematodes. The “Pests” tend…

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