Southeast AgNet Radio Network

1 week ago | southeastagnet.com | Clint Thompson

The Georgia Cotton Commission and University of Georgia (UGA) Cotton Team advise growers about the importance of summer cover crop options for fields that will be left fallow this growing season. Taylor Singleton, UGA assistant professor and Extension sustainability specialist, outlined in the UGA Cotton Team June Newsletter what growers must remember when planting cover crops. Soil erosion: Keeping the soil covered ensures that the soil remains in place.

1 week ago | southeastagnet.com | Clint Thompson

By Clint ThompsonThe Georgia Cotton Commission’s (GCC) annual mid-year meeting is a little more than a month away. Registration is ongoing for the event, scheduled for Wednesday, July 23 at the Nesmith-Lane Conference Center in Statesboro, Georgia. Taylor Sills, executive director of the Georgia Cotton Commission, discussed the significance of this year’s event. “The mid-year meeting is an important new program for us. This will be the third year we’ve done it.

2 weeks ago | southeastagnet.com | Clint Thompson

By Clint ThompsonThe Georgia Peanut Commission and the Southern Peanut Farmers Federation have announced the featured speakers for the General Session I at this year’s Southern Peanut Growers Conference. The speakers include Taylor Singleton, University of Georgia (UGA) assistant professor and Extension sustainability specialist; Mark Abney, UGA peanut entomologist; and Wilson Faircloth, agronomic service representative with Syngenta.

2 weeks ago | southeastagnet.com | Clint Thompson

By Clint ThompsonIt may be early in the cotton season, but Georgia’s growers need be concerned with potential disease buildup amid the increased rainfall across the region. The Georgia Cotton Commission and University of Georgia (UGA) Extension Cotton Team caution producers about areolate mildew and target spot. Bob Kemerait, UGA Extension plant pathologist, discussed both diseases in the team’s June newsletter.

3 weeks ago | southeastagnet.com | Clint Thompson

By Clint ThompsonReplanting is a management option that some Georgia cotton growers have had to consider this spring. The Georgia Cotton Commission and Camp Hand, University of Georgia (UGA) Extension cotton agronomist, advise producers on how to proceed with replanting their cotton seeds, now and in the future. “Really the biggest thing I’d tell folks is if you’re on the fence with (your planted seed), keep it. That’s my stance, for this year and really from now on,” Hand said.