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  • Please make plans to attend the peanut production meeting, it will be held at Brooks County AG Building today at noon.   Dr. Mark Abney, UGA Entomologist and Dr. Glenn Harris, UGA Soil Fertility specialist will be providing peanut updates for 2016.

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  • St. James Episcopal Church & BCT Gin, invites everyone to the 13th Annual Blessing of the Crops.  This event will be held at BCT Gin at 7:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 8, 2016.

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  •   The 75th Annual Valdosta Area FFA & 4-H Beef Show will be held at the Brooks County AG Annex on Monday, March 7th at 6:30 p.m.  The sale will be on Tuesday, March 8th at 7:00 p.m.  Please make plans to attend and support students from Brooks, Echols, Lanier, and Lowndes Counties, as they…

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  • The Brooks County Cooperative Extension Office will be hosting a silage/baleage meeting this Wednesday March 2nd at noon here in the Brooks County Ag Building. The speakers will Dr. John Bernard, who will be speaking about current corn silage and baleage practices in the Georgia. Also, Ben Shirley will be speaking about pasture weed control…

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  • On Februrary 23rd at 9:00 a.m. Brooks County Extension will be hosting an area training for applying auxin herbicides in Auxin -Tolerant Technologies with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  This meeting will provide 3 hours private and/or 3 hours of commercial pesticide credits. Please refer to information below for more details.  Cotton and soybean varieties with tolerance…

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  • On Februrary 23rd at 9:00 a.m. Brooks County Extension will be hosting an area training for applying auxin herbicides in Auxin -Tolerant Technologies with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  This meeting will provide 3 hours private and/or 3 hours of commercial pesticide credits. Please refer to information below for more details.  Cotton and soybean varieties with tolerance…

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  • Article below was taken from FarmPress an article published yesterday on their website; Click here to read the original article. The LSU AgCenter has released a guide listing grain sorghum hybrids that offer resistance to the sugarcane aphid, a pest that has caused significant damage to Louisiana’s sorghum crop in recent years. The 14 hybrids…

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  •           The Brooks County Extension Vegetable Production Meeting was held on February 2, 2016, with Dr. Tim Coolong.  I wanted to share with you handouts that I distributed related to crop specific fungicide spray programs and fungicide efficacy charts for beans & brassicas.  Please click on links provided to access information.…

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  •                 The Brooks County Extension Weed Control Meeting for row crops (& vegetables) was held January 28, 2016 with Dr. Stanley Culpepper.  During the cotton weed control portion of the meeting, I wanted to share information that could assist producers in controlling cost inputs for this year’s cotton…

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  •   The Brooks County Extension Cotton Marketing Meeting was held on January 19th, 2016, with Dr. Don Shurley.  I wanted to share the educational information that I distributed and discussed at this meeting.  I am providing links to the 2016 Row Crop Cost Comparison Budget (includes cotton, corn, peanuts, & soybeans), cotton budgets, and Tifton…

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