Pesticides
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There will be one more Using Pesticides Wisely (UPW) meeting conducted at the Tifton Campus Conference Center on May 21, 2019 beginning at 1:30 pm. Immediately after the UPW meeting, Extension agents and GDA will offer an applicators license training for those individuals who do not have a pesticide license. The applicators license will allow individuals…
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A Using Pesticides Wisely(UPW) training will be held Monday in the Ag Annex in Quitman at 8:30 am. This training is required for anyone applying Dicamba products and/or Enlist One and Enlist Duo in 2019 and any person in charge of Dicamba and Enlist in crop applications. The UPW meeting will be from 8:30 am…
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There will be a Georgia Pesticide Waste Clean Day Event held on November 14, 2018 from 9am to 3pm at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia. This event is free but you do need to pre-register. The registration form is linked below the flyer. Ag dealers can also participate but there will be a…
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Below is a list of the 2018 Brooks County Production Meetings. Please RSVP to the office at 229-263-4103 a few days before each meeting so we can have a head count.
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Below is the latest on EPA’s order to cancel Dow’s Transform By Angus Catchot, Extension Entomologist, Jeff Gore, Research and Extension Entomologist and Don Cook, Research Entomologist November 13, 2015 – See more at: https://www.mississippi-crops.com/2015/11/13/epa-orders-cancellation-of-dows-sulfoxaflor-transform/#sthash.e1FP2zGQ.X5cGBhld.dpuf By now many of you may have heard that Sulfoxaflor, the active ingredient in Transform, recently lost a major court…
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Here is an alert from Dr. Stormy Sparks: The link below and the information attached concerns PROPOSED label changes for MOST insecticides we use in vegetables (and other crops). This currently will apply only to situations where growers are contracting for pollination services (but can easily be expanded). This will prohibit use of most insecticides…
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Late summer 2014 – We can all remember the new invasive pest that occurred last year, the sugarcane aphid (SCA). SCA infestations occurred in practically every sorghum field and in may cases resulted in production and economic losses. Please be aware that the first documented appearance on sorghum was identified this past week in Brooks…
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The Brooks County Extension office is currently conducting and/or participating in several research plots. I appreciate the Brooks County producers who are cooperating with our office and allowing this applied research work to be conducted on their farms. I am grateful for the support and participation in our…
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As we begin to consider and apply postemergence weed control in RR field corn, I wanted to share a mixing guideline for the corn herbicide Halex GT. Halex GT is a three way premix of glyphosate + mesotrione + s-metolachlor. This informational sheet from Syngenta provides details and mixing order recommendations when tank mixing with…
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The Brooks County Extension Vegetable meeting was held on February 25th. At this meeting, I shared information and handouts related to many new labels that have been acquired for 2015 growing season. I have included links that provide this information for fungicides, nematicides, insecticides, and herbicides. Also, I wanted to provide you with 2015…