Irwin County Extension 107 West Fourth Street Ocilla, Georgia 31774-1401

Office Phone: (229) 468-7409 E-mail: pedwards@uga.edu

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IRWIN COUNTY EXTENSION AGRICULTURE NEWS - Vol. 23 Fri. Sep 6, 2019

Phillip Edwards Irwin County Extension Coordinator In this issue: Recent, Meetings and Events, Peanut Checking Time, Peanut Irrigation, Worm Pressure, Small Grains, Morningglory Information, Show CAES, The Road to Success is Seldom Straight – UGA CAES Dean Sam Pardue Recent -

10 Days to digging – we’ve checked 97 samples thus far Awesome football game and white-out for Coach Nobles on Friday

Spidermites in peanut Meetings and Events Meeting/Events Date Location _________ Landscape Short Course (see attached) Cat. 24 Credits Wed Sep 11, 2019 Noon Lowndes Co. Ext. Valdosta, GA Irwin Young Farmer Drome Meeting Thu Sep 12, 2019 Noon CASE Farm Ocilla, GA Peanut Checking Time is Here So here is a reminder of how to pull a sample for maturity checking. Remember a peanut hull scrape maturity check will be as accurate as the sample that you take. Pull or dig up at least 5 to 6 adjacent plants from at least three representative parts of a field which can be dug in one day. Keep these samples from each area of the field separate. Pick ALL the peanuts off the plants until you

get around 200 peanuts (a sample should contain between 180 and 220 peanut pods). Pick the vine clean. If it will be a while before you can bring the sample then pick off the sample and keep the peanuts in a bucket of water to keep them fresh. * We prefer to check in the morning and that leaves the afternoon to get out in the county. * A notepad is available for you to leave a note in or under your sample for you to write your name and contact information if we are not here. We are shorthanded at the office so just leave them if we are not here and they will be checked as soon as possible Thank You Peanut Irrigation Schedule Porter As the peanut crop reaches maturity many have asked how much water is needed. This explains the reduction of water requirements as harvest approaches.

Worm Pressure in Peanut - Keep Checking

Approaching threshold to treat here – watch PHI intervals on material selection and also potential to flare spidermites in dryland Small Grains Corn and Grain Sorghum harvest is almost done. So, it’s time to start thinking about winter small grains. Our UGA folks do a great job with variety testing and have lots more info than just the yields in publications on the UGA Statewide Variety Testing website which can be accessed here. https://swvt.uga.edu/ The 2019 small grains section is about completed and should be posted in a few days. I have an advance copy if anyone needs it, let me know and I can email it to you. Here are some screenshots with recommended varieties and other information.

Morningglory Information for Future Reference Etheredge, Prostko Smallflower (Jacquemontia tamnifolia) is different from the other morninglories which we can refer to as Ipomea types. There are differences in how herbicides affect them. So you don’t have to know all the morninglories but it really helps to be able to pick this one out in all crops. Here’s a link to my blog post about morninglories. https://seminolecropnews.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/morninglory-id/

Here’s one of the ipomea ones, Entireleaf (Ipomoea hederacea) “Why is this important? Not all morningglories are controlled equally by certain herbicides. Here are a few examples: a) Gramoxone (paraquat) is generally good on most morningglory species but not smallflower. b) Basagran (bentazon) is generally not effective on most morningglory species but will control smallflower. c) Staple (pyrithiobac) is generally considered to be an excellent morningglory herbicide but not on tall. d) 2,4-DB is less effective on pitted morninglory than other species. e) Aim (carfentrazone) is considered a good morningglory herbicide but not on smallflower. Also, in cotton, Envoke is good on most morninglories but not Smallflower.” Congratulations to Guy Hancock County Extension Agent in Turner County – He interned here in Irwin County this summer

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The Road to Success is Seldom Straight by Samuel L. Pardue for CAES News The University of Georgia just welcomed another exceptional class of students to campus to kick off the new school year. The UGA Class of 2023 has an average weighted high school GPA above 4.0 and a record average of nine Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses. Plus, 82% of incoming students are Georgia residents representing 91% of Georgia’s counties. While those are great statistics that the university should be proud of, for many promising students in Georgia, it creates an often-false impression that they don’t have an opportunity to become a Bulldog. That’s not always the case.

I frequently remind high school students that there is more than one road to get to Ag Hill on the UGA campus. And that path doesn’t have to be a straight line. Many students perform better and stretch their available college funding further by spending a year or two close to home at a smaller University System of Georgia institution before transferring to UGA. But you do have to apply to get accepted. We have too many counties in Georgia where no students even apply to UGA. And, over the past five years, there are 10 Georgia counties who have had no students enrolled in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. However, this past spring, CAES did have students from 139 of Georgia’s 159 counties. Not surprisingly, the counties with the highest number of students in the college were the metro-Atlanta counties that have the largest student populations, closely mirroring the student body of the university as a whole. When we look at the five-year trend of top 10 Georgia counties with students enrolled in the college, it’s pretty much the same. That list includes Clarke, Cherokee, Cobb, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Houston and Oconee. However, when you look at the same list and adjust for population, it looks a little different: Decatur, Franklin, Irwin, Madison, Miller, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Seminole and Stewart round out the college’s top 10 feeder counties. While these statistics show we are doing a pretty good job of attracting students from across Georgia, we continue to look for ways to do better. It is incumbent upon us to develop and train students from across the state to be leaders and innovators, who will live and work in every corner of Georgia to build and promote prosperity and to make a difference in their communities. Over the past decade, some rural Georgians have indeed struggled to gain admission into UGA. Others may have had a difficult time adjusting to the size and scope of the university once they made it to campus. To help improve rural student success, UGA introduced a new scholarship for exceptional students from rural Georgia as a part of the ALL Georgia program. This program provides a network of resources available on campus ranging from rural student focused events, summer camps and RISE Scholars, a yearlong leadership and academic program to enrich student connections and improve student retention and graduation rates. CAES was recently ranked the No. 3 college of agriculture in the U.S. by Niche.com, an organization that ranks schools and colleges across America. Our students enjoy one of the highest employment rates at graduation among all UGA colleges, one of the highest percentage of graduates accepted for graduate or professional programs, and the third-highest average starting salaries among their UGA peers. Agriculture remains the primary economic engine in Georgia, and hospitality, one of our most promising new majors, is also booming. Georgia needs a well-educated workforce and some of our brightest, most innovative minds living and working in rural America to keep the economy growing and to help the state maintain its status as the best place in the country in which to do business. If your heart is in agriculture and you dream of being a part of the Bulldog Nation, don’t let lofty statistics scare you away. Let us help you build a path that’s right for you and will put you on the road to success. Sam Pardue is dean and director of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. As always for more information, contact your Irwin County Extension Office at (229) 468-7409. Thank You, Phillip Edwards Irwin County Agent

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