Ag Line: Cereal Leaf Beetle on Wheat
By Wade Parker County Extensio Coordinator
      As one would expect, high wheat prices seem to bring on every pest in the book! This past week, I identified some cereal leaf beetle larvae in wheat. In the past, cereal leaf beetle larvae have been contained to the northwest area of the state. With the passage of time, this insect is spreading so...
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4-H News
By Anna Burgess County Extension Agent
      On March 29, we took 30 students to Emanuel County for Cloverleaf District Project Achievement. The students have been coming in and working very hard for weeks trying to learn their speech. Everyone at our office was very proud of them. There were about 300 students from the surrounding counties ...
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Black earns national recognition
      An area corn grower has been honored as a state winner in the 2007 National Corn Yield Contest (NCYC,) sponsored annually by the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA.) Lamar Black of Millen placed third in the state in the No Till/ Strip Till Irrigated Class with a yield of 257.967 bushels per...
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