Editor's Picks
Category: Weeds
USDA Invites Input On Crop Insurance Coverage For Prevented Planting May 24, 2023
WASHINGTON, – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a Request for Information today, announcing public listening sessions and soliciting public comments on possible changes to prevented planting crop insurance […]
UGA Awarded $4 Million To Design Farm of the Future May 18, 2023
Researchers at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have been awarded nearly $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to develop a […]
Climate-Smart Collaboration: Researchers Put Soil “FRST” With USDA Grant May 18, 2023
Soil testing is advancing through the collaborative efforts of three lead universities and funding from USDA’s Conservative Innovation Grants (CIG) program. The Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool, or “FRST,” combines soil […]
Generous Donation Boosts The Rice Foundation Funding May 17, 2023
WASHINGTON, DC – The Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. (AARQ) recently donated $250,000 to The Rice Foundation, a 501c(3) organization that represents all segments of the U.S. rice […]
Consistency Key in Thrips and Nematode Protection in Cotton Apr 27, 2023
Aldicarb Remains Industry Standard for More than 50 Years There’s a reason why many university researchers and cotton consultants across the Cotton Belt include AgLogic 15GG brand aldicarb in their […]
Peanut Innovation Lab receives $15 million Apr 19, 2023
Farmers around the world grow peanuts because the plant adapts to poor soils and produces a crop even as droughts become more common. Peanuts are shelf-stable, nutritious, don’t require expensive […]
Rain Lingers, But Growers Move Forward Feb 6, 2023
Showers returned to some California growing areas early in the week, but nothing like the atmospheric rivers that roared through in January. Rain also is expected this weekend. For the […]
Rice Breeding Breakthrough to Feed Billions Jan 11, 2023
An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, […]
What’s New for Agronomic Weed Control in 2023 Jan 5, 2023
Product/Label/Pipeline Updates And News Items As in the recent past, there are no new herbicide products with unique modes of action that will be registered for use in our area […]
UGA Researchers Work to Develop Innovative Solutions to Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut Jan 5, 2023
On a warm morning in mid-September, tractor-drawn peanut-digging equipment burrowed beneath the peanut vines on the first of Tift County peanut farmer Greg Davis’s fields. Spanning several rows, the digger […]
