GA Cotton Acreage Right in Line of GCC Predictions

Randall Weiseman July 1, 2010 Cotton, Georgia

The National Agriculture Statistics Service has released it’s final acreage numbers for the 2010 cotton crop and Richey Seaton, executive director of the Georgia Cotton Commission, gives some reasons on why Georgia’s acreage took a large jump this year.

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Planting Cold-Hardy Citrus in Florida
Muhmmad Shahid and Shahid Iqbal recently provided advice on planting cold-hardy citrus in Florida. Shahid is an assistant professor of horticulture/fruit physiologist, and Iqbal is a postdoctoral scholar in horticultural sciences, both at the University of Florida North Florida Research and Education Center. Edited excerpts from their article in the Cold Hardy Citrus Connection follow: […]
Phytophthora: A Complex Problem
While the recent Florida Citrus Growers’ Institute presentations focused mainly on HLB, other topics were addressed, including phytophthora root rot. This disease has become more problematic in recent years. Megan Dewdney, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences associate professor of plant pathology, spoke on the topic. She noted that phytophthora already is […]

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