Anyone who wants to see firsthand the latest cotton and peanut research conducted by University of Georgia scientists should attend the annual UGA Cotton and Peanut Field Day Sept. 9 in Tifton, Ga....
The Virginia Tech Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center (AREC) will hold its late-season field crops tour during the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 15. ...
By Eddie McGriff, Extension Coordinator, Coffee County, Ga.
Farmers need to be scouting their fields as I have been seeing an increase in worms this past week....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The recent 2009 Sunbelt Expo Field Day in Moultrie, Ga., treated visitors to a preview of more than 100 in-field crop variety trials in addition to cutting-edge agricultural technology and suggestions on handling some of the more pressing fertilizer and pest control concerns on growers’ minds....
By Eddie McGriff, Extension Coordinator, Coffee County, Ga.
We have nearly perfect conditions now for white mold to blow up on us — high humidity, rain, full canopy, etc. ...
Now in his 41st year as a farmer, Billy Bain of Dinwiddie, Va., is a diversified row crop and beef cattle producer. ...
U.S. peanut production is forecast by the USDA at 3.53 billion pounds, down 32 percent from last year and down 4 percent from 2007. ...
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2009 Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards honored its 10th class of winners during the recent Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla., and this year’s contest garnered a record number of nominees from throughout the Peanut Belt, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Laboratory and advisor for the program....
To showcase research and its importance to the agricultural industry in its region, the University of Georgia Southeast Research and Education Center in Midville, Ga., will have a field day Aug. 19....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s an ironic twist that the same weather conditions which produce high-yielding peanut crops — warm and wet — also provide an ideal environment for diseases to flourish. ...
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