By Wesley Porter, Scott Tubbs, John Bennett, Seth McAllister, and Sarah Beth Thompson Unfortunately, we have reached that point in peanut harvest that it has gotten hot and dry for an extended amount of time. This weather can have negative effects on the peanut inversion and harvest process. I have started receiving calls about estimating …
By Scott Tubbs, Sarah Beth Thompson, and Wesley Porter While we are wrapping up the peanut season, and we have seen many peanuts that have been dug and even harvested across the state, it is important to note that we are not done with the season, and peanuts will require water until they are fully …
By Wesley Porter, Luke Fuhrer, and Sarah Beth Thompson It is that time of year, when we are defoliating cotton and moving very rapidly into harvest. On most of our new cotton harvesters there is incorporated on-board module weighing systems and, in many cases, yield monitors. While I am putting this into a Blog Post …
In modern poultry production, thousands of chickens are raised in a confined housing system, which tends to have animal disease or well-being issues. Early disease detection is essential to limit spread and economic loss. Poultry diseases threaten animal welfare and productivity, especially in cage-free systems where communal environments increase disease transmission risks. Traditional diagnostic methods, …
Coming up soon, the JPC Cotton Field Day will be here on September 23, 2025. It will be located at the J. Phill Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center in Watkinsville, GA. Click below for directions: The schedule for the event starts at 8:30 a.m. with check-in, 9:00 a.m. the field day will start, and …
By Ashley Smith, Sarah Beth Thompson, and Wesley Porter As we discussed last week, we are quickly approaching maturity on peanuts. Now that we are finished(-ing) corn harvest, we should take some time to go through our harvest equipment for peanut and cotton so that we are ready to go when they hit optimum maturity …
By: Wesley Porter and Sarah Beth Thompson We are now into mid- to late- August and are moving into the end of the season very rapidly. While some of the later planted crops are just reaching peak water requirements, many of the earlier planted cotton and peanuts are moving on closer to maturity. So, similar …
By: Wesley Porter, John L. Snider, Jayson Wisekal, and Sarah Beth Thompson The weather as usual is very unpredictable. We go from hot and dry to hot and humid, to cool and wet and back to hot and dry. Then, during the fall we always have the potential for tropical storms and hurricanes. While, in …
Foraging is considered one of the most important natural habits in chickens, as they spend a significant portion of their time doing it (Figure 1). US egg production is shifting from conventional caged system to cage-free production considering the hens will have more freedoms in performing natural behaviors such as dustbathing and foraging. Foraging behavior …
By: Jason Mallard, Sarah Beth Thompson, Phillip Edwards, David Hall, and Wesley Porter With this being released August 4, it seems like the growing season has flown by quickly. Corn is past needing irrigation and harvest has begun unless it was late planted. As we evaluate the current cotton crop, we have had above average …
