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Wheat Preplant Fertilization
I’ve been asked today about fertilizing ahead of wheat planting. Your preplant fertilizer will depend a lot on what was just harvested from the field where you will be planting wheat for grain. Here...
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Crop Budgets and Comparisons
I’ve just added 2 new links on my Blogroll section you can see on the left side of my blog. You can click on them and it will take you to UGA Ag Economics websites. The one entitled “Crop Budgets,...
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2012 Georgia Pest Control Handbook
Thee new 2012 Georgia Pest Control Handbook is available online and for purchase if you want a paper copy. On the left side of my blog, just click on the link and it will go right to it. Or you can...
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Crop Duster – Patch Price
One particular Ag Pilot here in Donalsonville has the most experience of anyone I know of in cropdusting. Patch Price started flying when he was still a child and began agricultural flying in 1957. He...
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Wheat Being Harvested
Wheat harvest time is here although earlier that usual. It will give more time for planting behind the wheat crop . Usually cotton goes in and does well. Here’s Jim and Wes Dozier with some of their...
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240 Frost Free
It’s great to have 240 frost free days in most years. It enables us in south Georgia to do a lot in agriculture and in life in general. It gives us variety, however, as well and a change when we do...
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View from the Elevator
I climbed up a grain elevator, 80 feet, to get a good view of the crops surrounding it, yesterday. They were harvesting soybeans and cotton nearby. Cotton ready to pick is really shining and I’m...
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Dolomitic Lime has Magnesium
We’ve had some discussions lately about liming and liming materials. Sometimes Hi Cal (Calcitic ) Lime has been used at times as a calcium source for peanuts before planting and it works pretty well...
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Farm Bill
Here is some farm bill info from Dr Don Shurley, UGA Extension Ag Economist. Update/Status and provisions of the New Farm Bill. To go to the full presentation click on this link....
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Neutral Ocean Temperatures
Neutral ocean temperatures in the Eastern Pacific Ocean leave climate forecasters guessing, according to Pam Knox, University of Georgia Agricultural Climatologist. This year’s near-average sea surface...
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Late Cold Spring Frost
We had a late frost this week. Our normal last frost date is March 14, but we had frost this week on March 27th. See the numbers below from our weather station here in Donalsonville. It got down to...
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Crop Disease Update
UGA Extension Plant Pathologist, Bob Kemerait, gives us the following plant disease update. Fungicides and Corn: My graduate student Suzette Arcibal has spent much of last season assessing the impact...
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Career Day at Seminole County Elementary
Career Exploration Day was held here at Seminole County Elementary School and my co-worker, 4-H Agent Cindy Meadows and I had the priveledge of talking about Agriculture to the whole school, 2 classes...
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Expo Field Day – July 11, 2013
The Sunbelt Expo Field Day is scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2013, beginning at 7:15 am. This is a good chance to learn about research going on at the Moultrie site. Attendees will not only have a...
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Species of Thrips in Georgia
We are hearing reports of thrips control problems in other areas but our foliar sprays seem to be working well in southwest Georgia. I communicated with Dr. Phillip Roberts, and Dr. Mike Toews, UGA...
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Heat Units Low
Temperatures have been lower than normal and so maturity is delayed somewhat. Generally with peanuts we look at Growing degree days by looking at the hours that we get above 56 degrees F and we don’t...
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More Rain, a year’s worth already
We have had over a year’s worth of rain and it’s still August. Here’s the numbers from our Donalsonville weather station. We’ve had over 60 inches and our yearly average is 54 inches. Here are the past...
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Harvest Festival
Time to celebrate the harvest. It was our annual Harvest Festival this past weekend in Donalsonville, Seminole County. It’s great to live in a place that recognizes this important time of year and the...
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Farm Program Participants Need To Consider Wetlands
USDA AGENCIES REMIND FARM PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS TO CONSIDER WETLANDS ATHENS, GA, November 14, 2013 – Are you a USDA farm program participant planning on clearing, draining or manipulating land for...
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