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  • Agriculture is big business in Worth County. Worth County agriculture has a great impact on the economic health of our county and communities. With agriculture being Georgia’s largest industry, we celebrate Georgia Ag Week the week of March 21-25, 2022. This week has been designated as “Georgia Agriculture Awareness Week – Celebrating Farmers, Food &…

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  • Individuals that attended and signed in at the Worth County Extension Row Crop Weed Management meeting on February 3, 2022, or one of the approved weed control meetings (listed in the table at the bottom) have received credit for Using Pesticides Wisely training and do not need to attend an additional UPW training. Worth County…

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  • Small Grain Freeze Damage Information from Rome Ethredge We may see freeze damage in wheat and oats grown for grain. This is what we’re looking for according to the growth stage in the following chart: Most of what we have now in Georgia is in the Joint stage. When we cut the stem in half…

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  • Save the date: March 29, 2022 and March 31, 2022 Learn more about precision planting, precision soil mapping and soil sampling, sustainability, and economics and decision making.   The sessions are free and lunch is provided. Register online now!     Register for the Statesboro, Georgia event on March 29, 2022.  Register for the Albany, Georgia event on…

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  • USING PESTICIDES WISELY for Georgia 2022 – Worth County All applicators driving the tractor/sprayer applying these herbicides (Engenia, Tavium, XtendiMax) must attend UPW during 2022 prior to using these products! Worth County Extension will offer UPW trainings at 11:00 a.m. on the following dates: Wednesday Friday March 16, 2022 March 18, 2022 – – –…

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  • (Dr. Bob Kemerait) Caution is the Better Part of Valor After several weeks of unseasonably warm and often dry weather, the rains and cold weather are back for the rest of the week. From a disease management standpoint growers should be careful about getting in too big a hurry to plant. The kind of weather we have…

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  • Cold Coming Looks like we will have a few cold mornings that may affect our small grains and any corn that’s up. Hopefully the time it stays cold will be short and with warm soils we won’t be hurt much. And we aren’t in the most susceptible time frame in very much of our grain,…

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  • It is with great excitement that we invite you for the 2022 Tifton Beef Cattle Short Course! Our program this year will bring local and out-of-state experts to deliver the most relevant and up to date information on hot topics in beef cattle production during seminars and demonstrations. We will have great information on genomics in…

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  • Last week we had our Worth County Extension Corn/Soybean/Wheat Production meeting. Dr. Henry Sintim gave an update on Corn Fertility and Mr. Rome Ethredge shared timely information on Corn, Soybean, and Wheat production. Georgia Grain News – 2/21/22 (Rome Ethredge) Corn Planting Folks are getting planters ready and making sure everything is in working order.…

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  • This series will begin on March 1 and be held every Tuesday in March at 6:00 p.m. It is a webinar series hosted by Fort Valley State University Extension and USDA Farm Service Agency. The intent of the series is to help bring awareness of USDA FSA programs to all farmers and ranchers. Growers are…

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