April 2022 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook
Rainfall With hot weather just around the corner, it is time to look back at the moisture and temperatures from the last month of Spring. I know, technically May is part of Spring but not in Florida. March brought much needed moisture to the Panhandle, after a dry...
2022 Watermelon Update #9 – May 9
Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren (Levy), Tyler Pittman (Gilchrist), Tatiana Sanchez (Alachua), Luke Harlow (Union), Jay Capasso (Columbia), Dan Fenneman (Madison), Keith Wynn (Hamilton), Danielle Sprague (Jefferson), Emily...
Soybean & Corn Updates- Georgia Grain News 5-6-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Soybean Early System Soybeans are looking good. 16 days old and already forming nitrogen fixing nodules. We can tell the beneficial nodules from nematodes because they are stuck to the side of the root whereas...
Cotton Marketing News: USDA’s May Report Numbers Shift Market Focus a Little More Toward Supply
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics USDA’s monthly crop production and supply and demand estimates for May, released today, show revisions for the 2021 crop and are also the first such estimates for the 2022 crop. We obviously have a long...
Friday Feature: Using RFID Tags on Cattle Operations
At the recent UF/IFAS Beef Cattle Short Course in Gainesville, there was a good deal of discussion about cattle traceability in the event of a major disease outbreak. Much of the effort toward developing a traceability system in the cattle industry has focused on the...
Reducing Your Risk of Wildfire Damage
With wet growing seasons and multiple significant storms in the past several years bringing down many trees and/or limbs, it is quite likely that unmanaged forest lands throughout the Panhandle have a high fuel load for potential forest fires. These high fuel...
Thrips & TSWV Management: This is Your One Chance, Don’t Mess Up
Dr. Mark Abney, UGA Peanut Entomologist Thrips populations are currently high on volunteer peanuts in Panhandle fields that are being burned down for planting; the plant injury is obvious. I will make this post as straight forward as I can. UGA research shows...
Oat Rust & Wheat Leaves Drying – Georgia Grain News 4-28-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Oat Rust We are seeing some rust disease in oats now and it can be serious. Here are Dr. Alfredo Martinez’s comments, “Crown/leaf rust, caused by the fungal pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, is...
2022 Watermelon Update #7 – April 25
Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren (Levy), Tyler Pittman (Gilchrist), Tatiana Sanchez (Alachua), Luke Harlow (Union), Jay Capasso (Columbia), Dan Fenneman (Madison), Keith Wynn (Hamilton), Danielle Sprague (Jefferson), Emily...
Early System Soybean Planting & Corn Updates – Georgia Grain News 4-22-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Time for early system soybean planting is now in most of Georgia. You want all chance of frost over before proceeding. Southwest Ga. Grower and Georgia Soybean Commodity Commission Chairman, Greg Mims is here...