By: Ross Greene, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent and Wesley Porter, Extension Specialist I have received a lot of questions about the best way to manage irrigation during extremely hot conditions. I told someone recently that science tells me one thing intuition tells me another. I think we have to find a balance in between …
In recent years, global poultry production has increased substantially in response to growing demand for affordable animal-source protein. To meet this demand, poultry production systems have become increasingly large and concentrated, creating significant challenges in disease management, productivity, and animal welfare. In such systems, manual flock monitoring and management are becoming increasingly impractical, highlighting the …
This week we would like to highlight the UGA Extension Ag Water Team Newsletter. Below are a few of their impactful events: including field days, pivot uniformity tests, installing sensors, and much more. There are updates from Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest districts, Dr. Hawkins, and Dr. Porter. To see the full newsletter, please see …
By Ross Greene, Tyler Poythress, Sarah Beth Thompson, Wesley Porter If you have not already reached irrigation termination on corn, it is almost that time for considering finalizing corn irrigation. The official irrigation termination for corn is black layer. This post will offer a few images on what to look for, how current conditions are affecting the dry-down process, and a current study at SIRP focusing on corn irrigation and nitrogen management. …
By Sarah Beth Thompson, Bailey Ellison, Wesley Porter Last week, Mr. Ross Greene updated the blog on peanut water demand increasing, and this week we wanted to provide a closer look into cotton as water requirements increase. Based on early to late season planting date ranges, cotton water usage has already started or will start to increase soon. Below we have highlighted a few select planting …
By Ross Greene, UGA Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, Candler and Evans Counties, Wesley M. Porter, Extension Precision Ag and Irrigation Specialist, and Sarah Beth Thompson Editor’s Note: This article updates a July 2025 blog post, “Don’t Let Peanuts Get Dry in July” and a UGA Extension resource, “Mid-Season Irrigation Tips for July Peanuts, …
By Ross Greene (Evans and Candler County ANR Agent), Bailey Ellison, Sarah Beth Thompson and Wesley Porter Every year is different and brings its own challenges. The end of the 2025 and the beginning of the 2026 season have been very dry, honestly drier than we have seen in the 2000’s. We have started to receive rainfall, but we …
Join us for the GA/FL Irrigation Expo on June 10th, 2026, at the Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center in Lyons, GA from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This event will cover landscape, solid set, center pivot, and drip irrigation technologies by bringing together a community of growers, professionals, consultants, universities, and industry leaders. They …
By David Hall, Jason Mallard, Phillip Edwards, Savannah Beasley, Wesley Porter, Sarah Beth Thompson A few weeks ago, we had our agronomists update on planting considerations for this season’s unseasonal hot and dry conditions. Most fo these two articles are included in the May Peanut Pointers and Cotton Team Newsletter, but I have decided to …
Precision livestock farming (PLF) is defined as the management of individual animals by continuous, automated, and real-time monitoring of health, welfare, production/reproduction, and environmental impact. It encompasses a wide range of engineering principles, techniques, applications, and tools for data acquisition, pre-processing, modeling, post-processing, and analysis. Non-invasive techniques such as using wearable sensors, accelerometers, and radio …
