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If you’ve been keeping an eye on the weather, you’ll have seen that there is a tropical storm brewing down in the Caribbean. While it hasn’t made it to hurricane status yet (as of Tuesday morning), the projections do show it strengthening before making landfall. The current projections show it passing over South Georgia. While…
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***Update from Dr. Mark Czarnota The Georgia Department of Agriculture issued a stop sale order on Midash Forte Insecticide on June 18, 2024. Batch TX433 was contaminated with varying low amounts of triclopyr and 2,4-D. If you have bought this insecticide any time in the past year prior to the stop sale date, please check…
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I would like to welcome Dr. Dario Chavez to his new role as the UGA Citrus and Peach Breeder. While Dr. Chavez has been at UGA since 2014, he has recently taken on the new role of UGA’s Citrus Breeder. In this new role, he is expected to be of great benefit to Georgia’s emerging…
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I would like to welcome Dr. Mary Sutton to the UGA-Tifton Campus as the new UGA Citrus Extension Specialist. I am sure that she will be a valuable resource for Georgia’s emerging citrus industry for years to come.
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In this new extension publication from Jake Price (UGA Extension Citrus Area Agent), the factors influencing cold hardiness of citrus are discussed in the context of the major freeze experienced across southern Georgia in December 2022.