You Can Fix A Stand Fast If You Fix Downforce

A wet stretch can feel like a gift and a trap at the same time. We sit down with the UGA cotton crew to sort out what the rain really changed across Georgia cotton fields, from how fast acres are going in to what you should do the minute you can get back in the field. We talk about planting pace, why slow rain helps stand establishment, and how to think about planting decisions when shallow moisture is back but the long-term water picture is still tight.

Then we get practical. Dr. Lauren Lazaro joins us to flag what that moisture triggers next: major weed emergence. We walk through why pre-emergence herbicides matter, and how precision agriculture fundamentals like nozzle condition, boom height, and sprayer setup can be the difference between clean fields and those telltale straight stripes of escapes. We also dig into planter performance, including real-world downforce failures that leave seed on top of the ground, when active downforce helps, and when sandy, dry soils can make you overdo it.

On the pest side, we cover early-season thrips management, what we are hearing about grasshoppers and false chinch bugs, and why scouting stays non-negotiable. We also push the maintenance items that pay back fast, especially irrigation pivot uniformity, before dry weather exposes problems on yield maps and in the bank account. We wrap with cotton price and acreage outlook plus upcoming UGA opportunities, including scout schools, an irrigation expo, and a preview of the National Proving Grounds weed tech work in Perry.

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Transcript

Welcome And Planting Progress

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Bringing you all things cotton production and pest management. This is the Talk and Cotton Podcast with the University of Georgia Cotton Team. Let's get into the whys of putting on, throwing off, and cutting out.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

All right. Today is May 13th. Talk and Cotton Podcast. Have some guests.

SPEAKER_03 0:32

Westboarder.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

And Lauren Lazaro.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

Are we guests? We're only guests on this podcast. We're not regular members. You're regular members.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

It's my first time, so. All right.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

Lauren's a guest. We also have uh Sarah on the soundboard keeping us straight. But uh I'm Philip Roberts. Hey, we've been planting cotton around the state of Georgia. That's good. Yep. Need to. We uh at least uh all our entomology trials, we're right on target. A lot of cotton's going in the ground. People really got started. Any estimates on planted acres? I might estimate.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

My estimate's 16 percent.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

16 percent. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with 28. 28. All right. Magic number.

SPEAKER_03 1:15

I'm gonna go with 24. Oh, but Philip cheated. He looked before now.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Well, actually, we did look at a crop progress report that comes out on Monday, so that would have been uh ending on May 10th. We were 24% planted. Hey, I win that one. I didn't go with that. Price is right, you busted.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Five-year average is 25%. So we we're tracking right on schedule. But uh a lot of good rainfall.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

Hey, this rain's been great because it to my knowledge, at least around us, it has not been washing rain. Now, I did hear we had some three to five inch amounts south of us, so I don't know how washing or hard that came, but some more than that.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

Um I watched the weather this morning, and the radar estimate was up to 10 inches in some areas in Brooks County. So From yesterday's? Or are you talking about over at the weekend? No, they were talking about it this morning, so last night. Very small area, but uh still definitely pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

Like Pam said, right? We can be in a drought and still flood.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, the problem with that is, and everybody knows, is your soil's been dry and then it comes out fast and it just doesn't have time to re-re-infiltrate and rewet itself. So yeah. I don't know. At my house, we've had a lot of slow rain. We I checked because you know the bowing farm's close to us. Um we had a tenth since midnight, and then yesterday we had about a half at our out at the bowing farm. So um it's been good for much needed rainfall though, so that's good.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

And you know, as soon as we get back in the field, take advantage of this moisture wis.

SPEAKER_03 2:43

Hey, that's what we need to do. We learn, and I've got some John Deere guys that got in last night, yesterday afternoon, and supposed to plant it today. We're not. That's okay because you know I'm not gonna complain about that. We uh we needed that moisture into this trial. We actually had to push the trial off two weeks because we couldn't get in the field and finish tillage, is to tell you the situation because there's two dry land fields, and so I'm pretty sure that's where a lot of us were sitting at. Um heard lots of stories about that and waiting on dry land and doing some of that stuff. And so now, in my opinion, Philip, if you've got dry land fields you were waiting on, let you get where you can work the field again, and now's the good time to put it back in. My one small worry is we don't have any significant rain in the near-term forecast again. And I think there's supposed to be a Bermuda hive moving in for uh um for about a week or two. But again, if it were me at this point, we've refilled our uh at least our shallow profiles. Um we're still behind on the year, significantly behind on the year, and significantly behind on well levels and pond levels. But you know what? This gets us the moisture we need to get the seed in the ground and get it up and get it growing. The nice thing is that both cotton and peanut early in the season does not have a very high water requirement. We got ample moisture to get those, get them up and get them growing. They can they can be very resilient early season. Absolutely. Get a stand. Get the stand.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Lauren, what do you want to visit with us today about?

Rain Brings A Weed Flush

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Well, I'm precision ag taking over somewhat. Um, but I'm a weed scientist by training. So one thing to remember with all this little bit of rain we're getting, especially the slow rain, is that we're getting lots of weed emergence coming up. So um looking at some of these fields, we prepped land, we were ready to go, need a little bit more water, but now we have all those flushes of weeds coming through. So you need that full strong rate of your pre-emergence that still needs to go out. Super important.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

In terms of precision ag, what are you gonna look at this year?

Precision Ag Focus On Sprayers

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Oh, that's that's a great question. I think I'm just gonna dabble a little bit this year. I'm gonna really focus on sprayer technology this summer, um, play around with some new technology that's coming out in uh rope crop production and see see what it looks like. But we'll be really looking at what we're currently doing, making sure um our nozzles are right, our boom heights are right, you know, kind of walking around through there. So if you see me out there, you know, be be ready. That's just what I'm looking at.

SPEAKER_03 5:03

I have filled her July up. If she uh think that's a lie. I have her on the road every week of July, somewhere around the nation. She's giving plenty of talks, so don't worry.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

We're good. Yeah, it's gonna be good. First year we'll be doing a little bit slower than normal, and then we'll pick up years to come.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

So you really figure out where you can have impact here in Georgia. So it it takes time just to learn the system. Learn cotton.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

I've been working in great crop. Yeah, I've been working in cotton, you know, 15 years. So that is something Georgia cotton. Well, Georgia cotton is my first time doing that. So first time for peanuts. I've never even seen a peanut field yet.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

So you know, cotton's the same crop, but you know, across the country. There's still variation in in how it's grown, just the different environments and different needs.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

I've been lucky enough to work in cotton everywhere from Louisiana, Arkansas, all the way to Virginia, North Carolina, up to Illinois. So I've been all over with it. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Oh, yeah. Well, well, that'll be great. What else?

Planter Setup After The Rain

Downforce Problems And How To Fix

SPEAKER_03 6:06

We talked a little bit, you know, we're we're refilling. I think on the planner side, you should be set up and ready. I hope. If not, I have gotten a few calls still about planters not doing exactly what everybody wants them to do, and that's fine. Call me, get you there and get you set up because maybe we finished up with corn, or maybe we got into a cotton field or a peanut field and realized that we were still having a few issues, and that's fine. I would I would make some minute adjustments, of course, because if you were planting prior to the past week and a half, we were planting in a lot drier conditions. And in that case, uh, even if we had shallow moisture from irrigation, we didn't have any deep moisture, right? If you look at the profile, we kind of uh lost a lot of that now. We've replenished a lot of that deep moisture. So won't need um won't probably well, it may change our downforce needs um definitely now. And Camp, I read one of Camp's articles earlier this week, I think, and I wrote some stuff similar to it about where we were putting it at the planner depth uh back then that we want to make sure that we would err in on the deeper side then because it was drier. Now we can back that back off, right? We do have that shallower moisture, and at least in the near-term forecast, not as hot temperatures as what we had two to three weeks ago, right? We were really drying up in the 90s uh 90s, so um, we can back that down uh a little bit in that inch to three-quarter inch mark, um, take advantage of the shallow moisture, let that crop get on up out of the field. We planted our second planter study in Tifton on Monday and then caught all that nice rain on top of it. So that's good. We did our two-week emergence in Midville yesterday. I was just talking to my student before I walked over here about it. He said he's trying to see what treatment differences we had, but we definitely had treatment differences. What we noticed, um, and some of you guys may be noticing it, we planted it um two weeks ago, and then what happened in between the two weeks? It got a little cool, right? Uh last week it cooled down some, which was, you know, it feels nice, but that slowed us down a little bit. But our emergence on that trial, two weeks out is ranging between 70 and 80 percent on average. So we're hoping to finalize that. We'll go up next week and do the final count, uh, seed spacing and all that, and have our have our data ready to go on it. So I think just adjust to your conditions, right? Um, of course, if you've got irrigation, that's again where I would I would prioritize dryland fields right now for a little bit, and then we can always circle back around to our irrigated fields after that, right? We just got to play that game. I'm I'm happy to see we're 20, you know, a quarter done. And we're still, I mean, like you said, May 13th. We're not quite halfway through May yet. And um right on schedule. Yeah, like you said, our long-term average are right there. It's perfect. We we needed this rain, we needed this condition, so I I'm feeling pretty good about it moving on in.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

I'll give a little personal experience. I've learned a lot about downforce in the since our last podcast two weeks ago. Uh we had a situation, it was here at the Gibbs farm, and uh we set the planters, started planting, and uh unknowing to me, I mean, our beds were it's pretty stiff ground. And we went to check our stand, you know, a week later, and we had this one area, all the seeds on top of the ground. But the beds were just so hard. Yeah. But we uh came back and put more down for us and got a perfect stand. But it changed within the field. And uh I just didn't have history with that field to understand. I mean, you could see the beds because I mean they were hard. It's really hard. That's what you know and it just needed but it fixed it.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

So that's your inner relationship, right? A lot of people, and hopefully more and more people, we've been pushing that educational effort for years now. But but down force to depth relationship, right? You know, if you are in an optimal soil condition, and a lot of people are, you know, I've had those conversations with a lot of farmers, we're falling right behind tillage, or we've cleaning tilled, or even when you've got, and and we're getting away from this more and more, but when you're pulling strip till with the planter attached to it, right? So that's fresh tilled, right? The ground soft, you may not need it in those scenarios. But in this case, what we saw a lot of is we would uh build beds, get just enough moisture on them, and they would kind of crust, or you get that clay mixture that we have around here. You can see that little bit redder, and they get that about half inch, you know, quarter to half inch of just crusted soil right there. And if you're riding a row unit, and a lot of people have done this, and we got a lot of this sitting on the station where we've taken complete downpour systems off of those, because if we have a really dry field or really sandy soil, downforce probably doesn't help us. And we'll come back to that in a minute, some experiences I've had with that. But if you're in that condition or you've got a harder soil or harder spots in the field, it doesn't matter unless you've got some sort of weight sitting on that row unit very heavy, it's not gonna be able to cut into the dirt, right? It's just gonna scratch the top of the surface, and then you've not developed a furrow and you're gonna lay the seeds on the surface.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

Well, we had a problem, and camp came out, and we just added more downpours and looked good. Looked good. Yeah, good. But we had a problem.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

I mean, just I think sometimes I'm not saying this is the the case all the time, but all of us have ridden around in Georgia and you have a field that looks really, really good, but then there's a little hill up or down or a little spot in the field that's red and it's missing plants. Or plants are this tall, you know, a couple inches tall when the rest of them are six or eight inches tall. The first thing in my mind that comes to mind is probably a planter issue. It's the fact that we don't have a reactive planter and we pass through that area, and the same thing happened to you, right? He laid seeds either really shallow or on top of the ground. So yeah, they came up and they eventually started moving, but they're stunned, they're behind. And then in a lot of cases, your emergence is at 50% or less because a lot of them didn't come up, a lot of them never had enough seed to soil contact and it didn't germinate. So that's like the push for active downforce systems, right? So the push for it is like then it's gonna react to that. You set it on 50 pounds and it's gonna do its best to maintain 50 pounds throughout, hits that hard soil, and that hard soil starts pushing it out of the dirt. Guess what it does? It reacts back against the soil and makes sure you get down there. Um, the the flip side of that on active downforce systems that we've ran into, and and even in our program, we're constantly learning because there's new technologies coming out. We're testing a new planter that um, I don't think it's to be honest, I think it's the first year it's been released, does something a little different with hydraulic downforce. Once it dries up, we'll plant with it. But if you're in a really dry soil, the problem is what I've noticed is they can't find a bottom. Does that make sense? They don't get enough reaction force. So if they're on a sandbed, they just keep pushing, pushing, pushing, all of a sudden you're plowing sand. And that's what why a lot of people years and years ago, when we had those, you know, you had the two spring down for systems on it, they would notice that happening. And the solution to it is either to double gauge wheels so it floated a little bit better, or just pull the springs off and do row unit weight. Again, if you're in a perfectly tilled scenario, a really sandy soil, that's fine. We're we're creating a good furrow, we're putting it in there. But if we're in a harder one, we're not. So on the what I would tell you, you've got an active downforce system and we're past the time now, it could get dry again. You're in a sandy soil, you're in a dry soil, we've noticed we've got to really lighten it up or do almost no down for we had to turn the down force off on ours to plant our trials. If that tells you where it's at. Now we went to Midville, it's completely opposite. We got up to Midville, that that soil was just heavy enough compared to what we had here in our fields and Tifted that we turned them back on on 50 pounds. So that tells you, and again, I know we're traveling across the state, but just the soil differences in one, we didn't need any because we were plowing because it was too sandy. One, it was just heavy enough that we had to turn it on and go with it. So all I know is that's my first hands-on experience.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

And uh and I don't know what we'd have done differently. We set the planter and started planting, and everything was perfect. You know, the first half of the field came up perfect, and then it went haywire. Then we went to another field, perfect. It was just that one hard spot.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

Yep. That's it. I think we see that sometimes that variability.

Early Season Insects Update

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Well, in terms of insects, uh not a lot going on. We do have some cotton up, but we do have thrips. Thrips are gonna infest every plant that comes up. We need to use something that's planting on every acre. But there has been a little bit of the cotton that was planted in April that has required a supplemental spray, but that's to be expected, uh, especially when we're using a seed treatment, but uh nothing unusual. A lot of grasshoppers out there. We wrote about that in the newsletter, so take a look at that. This rain's gonna help with the grasshopper situation. Also was getting a few calls on false chinch bugs. Rain's gonna help with false chinch bugs, too. But it takes a lot of false chinch bugs to hurt you. I will plug the uh the thrips model. If you just Google thrips infestation predictor for cotton, the model has changed over the last couple weeks, and anything we plant from here on out, I don't expect to have much thrips pressure at all. We still need to use something at planting. There's never a situation we use nothing at planting for thrips. But uh, I really think most of our treatments are gonna hold from here on out. That's just a model, but that's what the model says, so we'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

With that in mind, make sure you're checking your nozzle tips. We've seen some pictures where some nozzle tips were clogged up from last season. We're getting these really straight strips across fields where weeds are coming through. So make sure you're checking your sprayers, your lines, your nozzle tips, all that's really critical for whatever you're spraying.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Make sure you clean out that sprayer. Yep. A lot of little basic things. Uh we get in a hurry sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Yeah, it goes a long way.

unknown 15:24

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 15:25

Well, that's what this uh maybe this rain bought us a little time to do some some general maintenance like that. I think uh a big thing I'd push, uh um I've a lot of my calls have been equipment calibrations. Um I've been pretty regular, to be honest with you. I've I've taken three or four a week, or if not more, of equipment calibration calls right now, which is good, right? We're double checking stuff and all that. Both dry dry stuff's about done, right? We're looking at uh counter thy mat, ag logic, and all that. I think our agents have maybe a few doing it, but I think most of that's wrapped up. But they were helping with our uh a lot of our farmers out there getting that done. And then now more liquid stuff. And then I would strongly push, it doesn't feel like it right now, but I would strongly, strongly push uh making sure your pivots are ready to go if you hadn't. You know, if if it's a cotton or peanut field and you've kind of let that one wait and sit there, and you have not done a uniformity test or not checked nozzles or anything on it in the past. My worry is if we get back into a dry cycle, and because we're already dry, you're gonna see that show up to what Lauren just said, seeing areas uh with weeds pop up. You you don't want to see areas, and you do, Philip. This is uh you love to talk about this one, but you don't want to be able to get on Google Earth and find that your pivot's messed up, do you? Because it's easy to do. It don't take long, and you can play around on there and see it. And if you're seeing it on Google Earth, guess where else you're gonna see it? Uh you're gonna see it. On that yield monitor. That's it. And even if you don't use the yield monitor, you're still gonna it's still gonna show up in your pocket. You may not know it, but it's still gonna show up. So uh years like this where we don't have um what I would call sufficient rainfall to mass those issues and to stay on top of what our crop water needs are, our pivots behind, and we're basically in what I would call almost a deficient irrigation scenario throughout, you're gonna see those issues show up. So make sure that that system's ready to go, maintenance in there. If you've noticed any issues on it, get those fixed now. And those issues can be as simple as some leaks on it that can be, you know, your nozzles blown up on guides. All that little stuff is gonna matter significantly if we're not applying that water uniformly. So stay on top of that. If you need help with it, call the uh call your agent, they'll get the uh Agwater team out there to help you with it. So don't wait until your cotton's uh shin high and and try to run one of the tests, right? You know, we've we may have a few more weeks if you haven't planted it yet or you just got it in the field and you're worried about it, let's get it done. So yeah. A lot to do. Rainy day, find something to do.

Watching For Cotton Jassids

Cotton Price And Acreage Outlook

SPEAKER_02 17:45

Hey, that's it. Hey, I'll say something about jazz. Do it. My least favorite insect. We're still looking for jazz, we can't find them. They're gonna get here soon. Encourage everyone to look at their okra patch. We're looking at okra. Look at your sunflower patches. Our crew goes out every week looking at sunflowers, okra. We're looking at cotton that's emerged. We planted cotton really early. We're monitoring that closely. We do know there are active jazz in central Florida right now, but to my knowledge, South Carolina, we've seen nothing on cotton. Alabama, nothing on cotton, Florida, nothing on cotton, Georgia, nothing on cotton. But we're watching, we'll keep our county agents posted as we find that. Last year we found them in July, but they were likely on okra end of May or early June, based on what it's just biology of the insect. So we're gonna find them soon, or maybe not. And uh again, we'll keep everybody posted on that. Price of cotton has been on a run, so that's good.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

Hey, what about our our projected acreage? Where are we at on that? I know that's been up and down. I've heard a bunch of different things. You got anywhere where you think we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

I think USDA had us at what, like 900?

SPEAKER_03 19:08

Okay. So not quite what we were, but up from last year.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Yeah, I think it's gonna be higher than that. That's what we I mean it's we've seen this run on the cotton price. I think some some folks, you know, are gonna put in more cotton.

SPEAKER_03 19:22

I think it's threefold, right? Usually we saw I I may be wrong on this, but the cotton price starts going up because originally we were like it thought acreage was gonna be down, but then price goes up and then fertilizer prices shot up. It got dry down here. A lot of people, and what I've heard, a lot of people went away from wanting to plant corn, said, All right, I gotta shift to something else because it's too dry. I don't have the moisture to get started. What I'm gonna go to, and I think the logical choice would have been cotton or peanut. And we planted so many peanut acres last year, and we couldn't follow follow. So, in your rotational pattern, it's like, let's go back to cotton.

SPEAKER_02 19:51

I I really think cotton acres are gonna go up quite a bit more. My personal opinion, we'll probably get to a million acres again. Again, there's a lot of reasons for that, the price of cotton, but you know, it's it it gives some people that have been peanut heavy opportunity to maybe try to help with that rotation a little bit. And uh you know, cotton needs peanuts, peanuts needs cotton. All our crops just fit together really really well. So I don't know. We'll know the end of June. Uh I guess that's when the official planted acres comes out the last week of June. So we'll be looking for that. But uh you know, we still got a long way to go. We got moisture right now, so it's just time to get it in there. And what stands I've looked at, which have not been many on the farm, most of it's been windshielding, but I was kind of surprised uh cotton I've seen up looks looks pretty good. So, you know, we put some cotton in some marginal moisture you know, in some areas, but uh you know, sometimes is I mean there's gonna be some replants because we just we're a little too aggressive. But uh but a lot of the cotton I've looked at looks pretty good. Anything else?

SPEAKER_00 21:09

I'm gonna I'm gonna do shameless plugs for some of the work that I'm doing this summer.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Um yeah. I want to hear it.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

So again, brand new, excited to to be doing this. So one of the things that we're working on um is something that came out from USDA. Um it's called the National Proving Grounds. So Georgia is one of two locations in the United States that will be looking at this. It's in Continent Peanuts. Um, we're gonna be in Perry, Georgia doing this. And we're looking at technology and seeing how it works. Um mechanical technologies, chemical technologies, all surrounded weed management and how um see what it does. There's no, you know, we're we're just seeing what happens along the way. Is it effective? Is it not? What's the cost point? So the location's open at all times to come out and look at the technologies and see what's going on. So I I'd encourage you to, if you're interested, to see what's going on. Um, there's some pretty standard things that we're hoping will be out there, pretty um, you know, targeted sprayers that'll be out there, similar to the John Dear C and spray, but other companies all the way to, you know, little robots in the field. So uh, you know, a whole wide range of things that'll be happening, um, a lot of drone work that'll be going on. So that'll be interesting to see what happens. Um, and then hopefully, you know, over the years this will expand out to, you know, multi-states. So other states will be looking at it in their main row crop production systems as well. So we've got that going on. Um, you know, nothing's been planted, so we're still still waiting to get going.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Well, that's that'll be interesting. That's gonna be where in Perry?

SPEAKER_00 22:46

In Perry, yeah, at Grand Farm.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

At Grand Farm. Is there gonna be a field day or something, or is it just kind of, or is that just to be determined?

SPEAKER_00 22:54

It's to be determined. I think the hope is that any days that we're running the technology in the field, you know, it's gonna be open for anybody to come. We'll do our best to let you know ahead of time what day that is gonna be, you know, what time we're targeting. We all know how that goes. But yeah, it's an open, you know, if you're interested to come out and see what's going on, just give us a holler.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

I'd like to see some of that myself.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

Hey, I want to throw this out there when we're talking about it. You you were talking about cotton prices and all that. I remember reading this morning in one of my news emails I get. Y'all may see this, read it, everybody may read across, but latest University of Georgia farm report showed that as you would expect, broiler chickens is the top, eggs, beef, cotton, and peanuts, right? So we're still up there, you know, cotton peanuts fall in that top five. Why it's important, why we're an important state to it, you know, why we push to get some of the work done, everything we're working on. So always feels good to read stuff like that in like a national news somewhere. So yeah.

Scout Schools, Irrigation Expo, And Wrap

SPEAKER_02 23:54

All right. Well, one more thing. Uh speaking of plugs, uh, we do have our annual scout schools uh June 1st, first Monday in June, Tifton. We'll meet at the conference center here. We'll start about nine o'clock. Myself and Mark Abney will talk about scouting uh cotton peanuts and soybean. Uh we'll be in Midville at the Southeast Research and Education Center, second Tuesday in June. I believe that's June the 8th.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Hey, why are you talking about dates? If you uh if you're going over to Midville on June the 8th and you want to stick around over that way a uh a couple more days, June the 10th, we're doing an irrigation expo in Vidalia at the Vidalia on your research station. That's gonna be for everybody. That's not just row crop, that's gonna be a big event. Anything from micro to pastures all the way to pivots and all. So we'll have that on June 10th, too.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

See, there's a lot of opportunities. You know, cotton team, we put out a newsletter every month, UGAcotton.com. You can contact your county agent, get that. County agent's gonna keep you updated on all these opportunities for various things, whether it's cotton, peanuts, soybeans, corns, or cows. Yeah. But uh anyway, I think we'll wrap it up. As always, if you if you have something we'd you'd really like to hear us cover on this podcast, you know, get with your county agent and uh be safe out there.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

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