บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Cotton Stays Profitable When We Stay On Time

I think we're heading in the right direction. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.360 Uh what are what are y'all seeing on the crop, y'all? 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.360 I think we look pretty good. 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.280 I'm happy to hear those numbers. 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:47.439 I felt like we were riding around and and looking at some of our trials. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:52.000 I feel like we were running a little behind, but it's that those numbers do not represent that. 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:54.000 So sometimes that's just a perception. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.199 Saw a little bit of yellow tint out there. 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:03.120 I think that had to do with what you said as we planted, uh it rained pretty heavily for about two to three weeks in the middle of July. 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.400 Now, to what you just said, we're able to get caught up and get fertilizer back out finally. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.360 I think that's all that was was just we couldn't get back in the fields for about three years. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.360 There's definitely some yellow cotton. 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:16.400 And uh, I mean you can tell where people have come in and side dressed and we've greened it up. 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.759 But uh, I mean, we have some trials here on the station. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:20.719 I mean, they're yellow. 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:21.280 Yeah. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:34.560 And uh even some of the Kent's students' trials, uh Marshall Corkin, he's got some looking at nitrogen timing, and you know, I I think we lost some of that nitrogen we put out pre-plant just with all that rain. 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:46.639 Well, when you look, and and I will I can't ever remember all the numbers because we look at too many, but I've got two of my grad students writing up a blog post for next week's for where we stand, and they did a good job. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:52.319 They looked at we got sensors out at uh we got a lot of sensors out, but the ones they focused on were in Camilla. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:57.759 Jay put some in Perry on somebody's trial, and we got some in Midville, so it kind of gives you a little triangle in there. 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:07.919 And they looked at planting dates and then rainfall within certain amounts of time, and it was amazing to look that they're like they said, Well, we've got like seven inches of rain on this particular trial, but all that came within a week and a half. 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:15.680 You see, so I think that's what got, you know, we were very dry, and then all of a sudden it was like lots of rain, and we can't complain about rain, right? 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.959 Don't get me wrong, but but it's like we finally refilled some profiles and got rain. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:20.879 But I think to your point, Philip, that's what got us. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:26.319 A lot of rain came very fast in a two-week time period, and I would not doubt exactly what you just said. 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:32.240 We probably uh lost a little bit of pre-plant, so we just got to do some good recovery now and be a good do good with our side dress. 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.040 It g it got us behind on weed management. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.959 I mean, it got us behind on a lot of things. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.519 I've heard that that a lot from growers that I I mean in my own trials, we got behind just because of the rain. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:47.839 They, you know, the biggest complaint I heard was that is that, you know, I've two things. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:48.639 It was kind of funny. 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.319 One is weed control because they were we were also trying to finish planting, right? 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.240 If we go back and look, you got a little bit of that crop that was stretched into early June when it started raining. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:57.360 And so you had to make a decision. 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:03.279 If you were talk to a couple different farmers who are um don't have a plethora of help, we'll put it that way, right? 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:03.839 Or equipment. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:09.120 And so it's like, what do you prioritize at that point when you can finally get back in the field, finish planting, or go spray for weeds? 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:10.000 I know what I would have done. 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:10.800 I'd have finished the planting. 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:12.639 That's right. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.439 And so then you got to turn back around and play the catch-up game on weed control and do what you gotta do. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:18.720 So, yeah, it is what it is. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:23.439 Well, it just demonstrates the point of how important being timely is. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:24.639 We know that. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:29.439 It really doesn't matter if we're talking about weed management, insect management, irrigation, planting. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.079 Oh, love it. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:36.480 Timeliness is so important, but again, there's only so much time in the day, and there's only so many days where you can work. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.800 But uh I think the main thing here is we're off to a decent start. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.600 I think we are. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:42.720 Acreage is up. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.560 I'm glad to hear that too from last year. 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:48.560 You know, we thought it would go that way, and we had some other factors that pushed it up to there, and that's a good thing. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:49.360 Yep. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.399 Well, anyway, what about uh on the irrigation front or or whatever you want to talk about, Dr. 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:54.800 Porter? 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:07.680 Yeah, well you you hit it on it with our crop condition right there, and and it'll come out uh some harder and a little bit harder numbers beyond just listening to me in our blog post,

hopefully on Monday or either Friday this week, one of the two when I can get it wrapped up and edited and ready to roll. 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.560 But um we're in a majority of our crop is squaring or moving into bloom, as Dr. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:13.519 Roberts just said. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:22.959 And so what that means is if we go look at our water use curve and where we're at, and uh everybody I can't say everybody, but a majority of you guys listen to this know cotton very well. 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:28.160 You know, when we get into that point, when it starts squaring, our water requirements start to ramp up relatively significantly. 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:29.279 Okay, we're putting on. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:30.879 We're putting on, we need it, right? 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:31.439 Oh yeah. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:32.399 You're putting on. 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:37.120 So what uh what's gonna happen is for good or bad, we were in a very bad drought. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:42.000 We got a lot of rainfall that that I'm gonna say right now temporarily refilled our profile. 00:06:42.079 --> 00:07:09.360 And the reason I say temporarily, and you can't base everything off uh this one indicator um that I'm about to give you, but um, you know, if you're in the Southwest District, specifically in that Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, there's uh 15 monitoring wells out there, and I don't know how many active permits there are, try to keep up with it, very few that operate off of this, but they if those wells drop below the 2012 drought average, condition goes to red. 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:16.959 We were in red from last October all the way until late May, we went to yellow, and you know what happened two days ago? 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:17.839 Back to red. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.199 So even though we got that rainfall, we're hitting back in the cusp of that uh drought again. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:31.439 And I, you know, the weather is the hardest thing to predict, and and I'm gonna go a little deeper into it because this is where we need to plan going into July and where we sit right now. 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:45.120 So um, when when we talked earlier on the podcast and all the long-term stuff I'd read about a month ago, and I didn't read my the report on Monday on where it sat, I didn't had a chance, need to go back and do that, but they predicted at that time for July to go back hot and dry. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.319 Well, guess what we've done right now? 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.399 At least right now we're back hot and dry. 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:53.839 And we're moving into peak water use, and we've depleted or are depleting our deeper moisture. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.519 So I want to I want to go into that. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:11.040 The nice thing, the way this season came out, I think, for the most part, we had a relatively dry spring, and to me that's very important because compared to a wet spring, in a wet spring, and our crop sits there in moisture, it does not put down deep roots, it sits in a saturated condition, have other issues. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.240 Most of that heavy rainfall we had came hard, it came fast, it came after a lot of our cotton was planted. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.879 I feel like we didn't sit in a saturated condition. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:24.639 Thus, we have the opportunity now as we move in to utilize deeper moisture for a little while to help us supplement. 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.560 But we're going to see that back to the point of those the monitoring in those wells. 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:33.600 We're seeing that uh subsoil moisture disappear again because I I've watched the radar. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.120 I don't know about some of y'all's trials. 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:44.799 Apparently we got a pretty, and I need to check how much we got a pretty significant rainfall rainfall in Camilla last night because all my sensors dropped down to not saturated, but they all recovered, even my dry land ones. 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.519 They were getting very bad and they looked really good this morning. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.440 So we're getting sporadic rain. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:52.799 We didn't um we got some in Tifton two days ago now. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:53.759 Pretty heavy. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:54.960 It was sporadic though. 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.399 So it depends on where you're at. 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.080 You may or may not have caught those. 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.360 So if you have not caught those, we are needing irrigation. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.200 We are using deep moisture, we are moving it from square and into bloom. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:13.360 Now is going to be the time that it's hardest for you to try to keep up or stay caught up because it dries that deeper moisture out faster than we can replenish it with irrigation. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.200 So there it's twofold in there though. 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:30.080 We've done a lot of we've done a lot of research, got a student working on it right now where she looks, we're looking at letting it dry out a little bit more during bloom or during this time of year versus keeping it adequate versus over-irrigating it just in these time periods to see what that does to the crop growth, the yield, and all. 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:37.600 And actually, surprisingly, during 2025, where we let it dry some, basically saying, hey, we couldn't quite keep up. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.039 Our yields were just as good. 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:50.639 So I'm telling you not to panic, but at the same time, don't let yourself fall behind because if we go into a dry cycle that carries us all the way into August, we're going to do a really good job supplementing that irrigation as we move forward going into the season. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.480 So I think what we need it. 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:57.279 I don't

the long term does not have any what I would say significant rainfall, unless y'all have seen any different. 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:58.879 I feel like it's hot and dry throughout the weekend. 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:00.639 They have I think there's a little chance on Sunday. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:01.120 That's right. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.840 They changed a 70% chance on Monday, 50% Monday. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:04.320 We'll see. 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:06.559 It's summertime in Georgia. 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:07.919 Storms will pop, potentially. 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:09.759 It's going to rain somewhere most days. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:15.600 So it's just like the rain in Tifton, and it's just amazing how isolated. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.960 But uh at the RDC pivot, 4500. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.840 At the microgen, 0.04. 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.080 That that's a not even a microgen. 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:26.879 You can see it. 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:28.080 You can see one to the other. 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:34.480 Well, we we were out yesterday down in Colka County, and we watched a wall of rain. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:40.639 We were doing something, and you know, we heard the rain, we saw the rain, we ran to the truck. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.000 And never felt the rain. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.360 Never felt the rain. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.320 And we left, and we can still see the rain. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:53.840 That rain you're talking about in Tipton on T Monday, I I promise you, in the center of town, it rained well over an inch, if not more. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:55.200 Because I I believe it. 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:56.080 It was it was dark. 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.080 But the same as what you said, our weather station right up here on Carpenter Road, 400s. 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:02.799 So And it didn't nothing at in Tai Thai. 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:03.200 Really? 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:03.519 Zero. 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:04.399 Yeah. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.320 So you know, you just need to stay on top of it. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:07.840 Know you're moving into that period. 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.000 Don't don't get laxed right now. 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.240 Let's not let's not stress the crop. 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:17.600 We know we don't want to look for visible um moisture stress, heat stress is a different story. 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.039 Um I could say, Philip, if we want to talk about it for a minute or two. 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:39.840 So the difference in heat stress and moisture stress is once that crop, and we need a physiologist here to give you the exact temperatures, but once that crop, once the air temperature gets over a certain degree level, I think it's around 95, and our humidity is extremely high, that crop cannot transpire the way it's supposed to, right? 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:43.600 It can't move moisture through, is putting into a heat stress scenario. 00:11:43.840 -->

00:11:45.919 You might have adequate moisture in your field. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:47.919 So you can see wilting during that time. 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:53.919 Usually that's going to occur sometime between noon and two or three in the afternoon until about six or seven o'clock at night. 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:55.759 All of us have seen it in cotton fields. 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:03.120 You drive by in that, you know, mid-afternoon time, they look kind of wilted and rough, but you can if you cut out and check the field, there's adequate moisture there. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.679 You come back early in the morning, that crop looks beautiful again, it's good to go, it's had cooler temperatures. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:08.080 Right? 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.480 There's stress occurring to it, but there's very little we can do. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:17.440 The last thing we want to do in that case, especially if we have adequate moisture near saturated conditions, is add more moisture because we will reduce our yields. 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.360 We'll put another stress on top of it. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:23.279 So make sure you're delineating between a heat stress and a moisture stress. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:24.960 Okay, I just I just want to throw that out there. 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:26.559 We need to be on top of this. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:27.679 We need to do a good job. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:29.039 Comes back to being timely. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:29.679 That's it. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:30.559 That's it. 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:31.200 What else? 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:32.080 You good? 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:38.240 I'd say the only other thing um that I would mention from my world, more the engineering side, is you said it earlier. 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.799 We're starting to put fertilizer out, been putting fertilizer out. 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.480 Just make sure you're you're calibrated and you're doing a good job with that. 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:51.360 We've uh we've done a few fertilizer spreader calibrations, depending on if you're using dry or liquid that matter. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:52.799 Make sure you calibrate the system. 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:58.799 The couple of dry ones that we've done, I appreciate the agents and all the uh work they've done in stepping up with those. 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.600 I feel like we've solved some major issues with those guys. 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.279 Spread widths are wrong, um, rates potentially wrong, stuff like that. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:12.320 So we've helped fix some of hopefully some potential streaking that would show up in the fields when they're doing some of those dry applications. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.600 Um liquid, to me, it's the same thing, right? 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:27.279 Check your nozzles, go across that system, and as dumb as this sounds, I've had issues in the past where you check one nozzle and think you're good, and then if you actually go calibrate, you know, catch on another nozzle, it's not quite the same. 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.480 I've had orphoss miss stamped, right, in the manufacturing process. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:34.559 I've had potential leaks, those um screens in there, especially nitrogen. 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:41.600 If you let it sit in the tank for too long, it'll get that um algae-like film and it'll stop those screens up or reduce flow. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.120 Just wash all that stuff, clean that stuff, make sure we're getting out the right rates. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.639 You know, back to Phillip's point, we see some yellow cotton out there, potentially lost nitrogen. 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:55.600 We don't want to think that we're applying a 30-pound or a 60-pound rate and we're we're half applying somewhere out there and have issues in the field. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:58.480 So that's a simple thing to do before we get out there. 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:05.039 Get your your catch cups and um run it, calibrate it, make sure you're comfortable where you're at for what formulation you're using. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:16.320 We do have a uh Lauren Lazaro helped me put together a blog post earlier this season, and it's got a table in there that's got all of our common fertilizer compositions in it, liquid, and compares it back to water. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.399 So if you do calibrate that with water, it's got conversion factors that we can step back into, etc. 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.799 So yeah, so we got all that in there, just extension precision ag and irrigation blog. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.840 You can find it, search uh fertilizer in there, application equipment. 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:34.080 It's uh it's embedded, or call your agent, your agent knows how to get to that and get me on the phone or Lauren on the phone if we need to and get you through it. 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:35.600 I just want us to be good with that stuff. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:37.360 That sounds like a good resource. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:38.879 Good resource. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:46.080 Uh just a reminder for our listeners we do put out a newsletter once a month, UGAcotton.com. 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.559 I believe uh that was posted last night. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:51.440 Yep, sure was. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:52.000 And Dr. 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:57.600 Singleton, I noticed you had an article in there, it was intriguing to me uh talking about fallow fields. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:02.240 And you know, I has as I've driven around, there are some fields that were not planted. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:02.639 Mm-hmm. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:04.159 Some not as many. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.519 There's some dry corners of pivots that were not planted. 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:08.159 Yep. 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.480 So uh just touch on that briefly, uh, because I I thought it was interesting. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:13.440 Well, thank you. 00:15:13.600 -->

00:15:14.320 Yeah, sure. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:21.840 So yeah, there's a few fallow fields around this year, but not as many as uh many folks were expecting, which is a good thing. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:30.080 But you know, a fallow field is um, of course, economically a lot of times it's the it's what we gotta do. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:44.639 Um but if you think about what that means for years to come, sometimes that can be problematic to let a field just sit empty throughout an entire growing season, especially when we're dealing with, you know, these big rainfall events and we have a lot of topsoil moving throughout the field. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.399 Uh we got heavy weed pressure. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:52.799 If we let those weeds build up over a growing season, they're adding seed back to that soil seed bank that we got to deal with next year. 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:57.759 So, you know, as you're thinking about, you know, the economics behind letting that field sit out. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:17.679 Um, the the purpose of the article was just get you thinking about maybe let's put some kind of cheap cover out there just to keep the soil covered, keep that soil in place, keep that soil from washing out so that we got to rebuild that field later, um, suppress any weeds that are gonna come up and prevent that addition back to the soil seed bank. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:24.720 Maybe, you know, limit the amount of products that we got to use next year and the next year and the next year to clean it back up. 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.759 Um, so there's some pretty cheap summer covers out there. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:38.799 We've been doing uh quite a bit of work on summer covers over the last couple years, just trying to figure out what's cheap, what's economical, what seeding rates, what are our options, how do we manage, things like that. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:57.360 Um, so if that's something that's interesting to you, we've we've got some information of just some stuff you can get out there on that field, how to manage it, but really can we make it work for you economically to minimize the inputs that you're gonna have to invest to clean up and rebuild that field next year? 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:02.960 So, you know, I think that economically we can we can pencil it out to make it work for you. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.599 It has huge benefits environmentally. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:12.319 Um that's a little bit harder sometimes to make work financially, but I think there's big value to keeping the soil covered. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.799 I think it can help us when we cycle back into that field next year or the next with another cash crop. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.000 So just something to think about, a little information in the article. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:27.759 And and if you want some more information on species, seeding rates, et cetera, get with your county agent and we can get you that. 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:28.319 Yep. 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:30.079 I th I thought it was intriguing. 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.240 And it's just something you don't think about. 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:32.880 Yeah. 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:33.839 Yep. 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:36.000 You know, we're in this for the long haul. 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:36.720 That's right. 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:38.000 We got to take care of our soil. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:38.400 Yes. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:45.200 If it washes away, our topsoil washes away, you know, we can drag it back out of the woods, but it's never quite the same. 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.640 You know, and you got to think about you know what we're losing with that topsoil. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.279 You know, are we gonna have to add more fertilizer next year? 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:57.359 Are we gonna have to, you know, add more inputs that are gonna cost us more money when things are getting tighter and tighter? 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:07.839 You know, can we spend 50 cents an acre this year to put something out there for you know the hot rainy months um, you know, to save us some money next year? 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:15.759 It's very personal for every operation, you know, it has to work for you financially, but I think for the long term, uh there's benefits to consider. 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.319 Of course, I'm always thinking about pesticides, you know. 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:23.519 So can we can we minimize the amount of money that we're gonna have to spend on pesticides next year? 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:27.519 You know, from a weed management standpoint, I think there's huge benefits. 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.240 Um, but of course, it it just has to work for you this year. 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.279 But I I think it's worth exploring if you got one sitting empty. 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.359 Yeah, I thought it was a good read though. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.400 It's uh kind of different. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.440 Yeah, it's something different. 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.680 But but yeah, it's something folks need to think about. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:53.359 Yeah, you know, especially if you're starting to slow down a little bit, if you're done planting, you're starting to wrap up your your spray program or getting close to the end, you've got a few extra minutes to just think about it as you're riding around. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.200 You know, if you've got a spot to play around with this year, you know, see what happens. 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:02.480 I think it would I think it would be very beneficial, but you know, as we're slowing down, something to think about. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:03.200 Yeah. 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:04.559 Hey, one other thing. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:07.839 Uh you recently uh had a young scholar. 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:09.200 Oh, yes, yes. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.480 So I I did. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:17.359 I think our listeners might be interested in what we do in what we

call the young scholars program. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.440 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:29.440 Yes, I I recently had the the privilege of mentoring a high school intern for the last five weeks through the UGA College of Ag Young Scholar Program. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.400 Uh so a little bit about the Young Scholar Program. 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:43.279 It's essentially a five-week internship for high school students that are interested in science and agriculture and research and just exploring different options available through the College of Ag. 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:50.559 And so students get paired up with a faculty mentor who guides them on a research project over the course of five weeks. 00:19:50.799 --> 00:20:01.680 They conduct that research project, they you know, work with the faculty members team, you know, doing other projects and work in the field and the lab and you know, whatever that that scientist is doing. 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:08.480 But ultimately the student completes a project and puts together a poster presentation and then presents that project. 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:13.839 Um, the program is offered in Tifton, Griffin, and Athens through the College of Ag. 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.880 And so the students essentially all compete against each other with their poster presentations. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:25.440 Um, but um a young scholar Caitlin and I, Caitlyn from Barry and County, she just completed her project. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.559 Um so she came to me and told me she was interested in insects. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:29.599 And I said, Oh no. 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:29.920 No. 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:32.480 I only know about butterflies and bees. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:34.880 You know, what are we gonna what are we gonna do insect-wise? 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:36.319 So thank goodness Dr. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:39.920 Roberts worked with us and helped us come up with a really neat project. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:58.160 And she actually worked in conservation and conventional tillage cotton, investigating fire ants and their benefit to the system and and what their preference was when it comes to that conservation versus conventional tillage, and is there a preference on cover crop species? 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:06.240 And so she did a lot of background reading and research to better understand the beneficial fire ants in that production system. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.279 Fire ants, and I learned this as well from her. 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:15.440 Fire ants are big predators of many problematic pests in cotton production. 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:21.759 So we wanna we wanna foster fire ant populations and our production systems so they can eat all the bad stuff. 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:23.680 And so she did a lot of background research. 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:29.759 She can tell you every single insect larva that a fire ant eats, which was yeah, which was exciting. 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:38.160 Um so then she went out to the field and we actually sampled uh cotton conservation and conventional tillage systems for fire ants. 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:43.440 So she took about a one inch piece of what they call mixed protein source, i.e. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:44.240 a hot dog. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:44.720 Hot dog. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:55.440 Put it in a vial, set it out in that field for an hour, and then we collected those fire ants and counted how many were in the conservation versus conventional tillage. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.759 And the numbers were were massive. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.759 I mean, we were catching seven, eight hundred. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.599 Fire ants in an hour. 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.400 A little bitty piece of mixed protein. 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:09.200 What a ballpark beef hot dogs. 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:11.440 So which was really fascinating. 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.920 So conservation tillage is a huge benefit for fire ants. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:23.359 And then she took it a step further and actually looked at different types of cover crop systems to see if fire ants had a preference. 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:28.079 And we looked at everything from cereal rye, crimson clover, multi-species mixtures. 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:39.279 What she found was individually there wasn't, there didn't seem to be a preference on type of cover crop for those fire ants to build their habitats in. 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:46.880 But when you start adding in more species to the mix, then we start to see an increase in those, about 25% increase in the fire ant population. 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:49.599 Yeah. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.319 So fire ants are great product etymology. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:58.160 It's a huge number of harmful uh insect pests that fire ants eat the larvae. 00:22:58.319 --> 00:22:58.960 I mean, huge. 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:01.759 They're one of our most important beneficial insects. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:02.480 I had no idea. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:04.319 Especially in a peanut system. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.400 No, it's not fun in a peanut system or any system with us doing sensors. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:10.000 They like electronics for some reason. 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:10.240 Yeah. 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:18.160 And so you get out there and get to working around stuff, and they're before you know it, they're all over you because they've built a nest around your maybe because we've loosened the soil too. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.200 That's probably part of it. 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.079 But you know, they get all everything, and you know what happens pretty quickly. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:25.200 It seemed to tell them your fire ant story from last year. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.480 Last year. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.440 I'd like to hear. 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:28.559 I don't remember what happened. 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:29.039 Uh-oh. 00:23:29.279 -->

00:23:31.920 I got all blurred from all the jazz it's last year. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:34.079 We were in the acid trial. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:36.240 We were all out there scouting. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:38.960 And you got into the fire ants. 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:41.759 And you had to shake your face off. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:43.839 It was bad. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:45.599 No wonder he blocked that one and mouth. 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.240 He's the only one that blocked that one. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.240 I think that was in Appling County. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:53.839 Yeah, it was in Appling County. 00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:58.240 Well, thank goodness we didn't we did not have any of those experiences this summer. 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:00.799 It happens, and I've seen that happen. 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:01.839 I can see it. 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:07.279 I mean, it was unbelievable how many fire ants we were collecting, and it shocked me. 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.960 I was worried we weren't gonna find nothing. 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.359 I'm like, oh no, this project ain't gonna work out for her. 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:12.240 We gotta have something. 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:15.519 And so so how many young scholars were in Tifton? 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.119 You had the presentations yesterday. 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:20.000 So there were there were eight in Tifton. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:23.359 Um, and they're they're still growing the program in Tifton. 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:29.519 Um, so for anybody listening, especially folks here on campus, they really need faculty mentors to participate. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:33.599 You know, more faculties that that can participate, the more students they can take. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:39.920 So we had eight in Tifton, I think there's 20-ish in Griffin and maybe 30 in Athens. 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:44.319 Uh so there's an option on all three campuses, you just got to be able to commute to one of them. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:51.680 Yeah, I I had a a young lady in my neighborhood and she did a young scholar program in Griffin a few years ago. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:52.079 Cool. 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:53.920 And now she works in the ag industry. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:54.240 Yeah. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:56.240 Hey, get these kids interested in ag. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:11.680 So if you have a a child or a friend or acquaintance uh interested in science and agriculture, that's what we're trying to do is find good young people and try to get them to work in agriculture and make an make an impact. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:12.319 That's right. 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:14.720 We we had a really good one that came through. 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:16.559 Um he was local Tifton coal buyer. 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:17.920 Some people knew his family. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.799 He came through and did two summers under my program way back. 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:31.680 Uh went to UGA Athens in engineering, came back to um Tifton campus for a master's degree, and now works, I think, in the uh EPD office out of Atlanta or one of the department offices. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:33.359 It was a Cole's a great student. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:35.440 I tried to convince him to a PhD, he's worthy of it. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:38.160 He needed he said he'd wanted to work for a little while. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:40.079 So he was thoroughly enjoyed it. 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:43.519 It was it was really, really interesting to hear the projects that the students worked on. 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:55.519 Yesterday was the final presentation day for Tifton, and then um the students are on their way to Athens now, or they'll participate in a um a two-day tour, UGA campus, stay in the dorms, visit the league. 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:01.680 And then Friday is like the big presentation where everybody presents their poster. 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:17.200 But um I thoroughly enjoyed hearing what all the students worked on and how their um their horizons have been broadened over the last five weeks and the number of students that are interested in exploring something related to agriculture science now. 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:18.000 So it was really fun. 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:18.960 I enjoyed it quite a bit. 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:19.359 That's awesome. 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:20.319 Very proud of her. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:20.960 Great program. 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:21.279 Yeah. 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.000 Great program. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:23.839 All right. 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:27.279 Uh hey, I want to make a few comments about insects. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:29.279 Kind of led in with the ant. 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:31.839 That's just so fascinating to me. 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.000 I know plenty of leftover. 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:38.480 When you came back, you talk about counting all those ants, and it was just like, oh my God. 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:40.880 It was that first day was bad. 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.119 But we got plenty of leftover hot dogs, so let's do some more. 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:48.720 All right, so just a little bit on insects. 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:58.720 Uh one of the things to touch on first uh is we are seeing uh the aphid fungus, primarily in southwest Georgia. 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:01.839 Um, and it's kind of scattered around. 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:08.160 But if you look at where aphids were really across the state of Georgia, they've been sporadic for some reason. 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.759 They're just not real uniform. 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:13.519 They're not heavy in all fields, they're heavy in some fields. 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:20.640 Um, but where we have uh the highest aphid populations, we're starting to see them crash in the southwest part of the state. 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:29.599 I think this crash of aphid populations is probably gonna be slow just because we don't have the population of

aphids out there everywhere. 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:46.240 I mean, the way that fungus works, once it starts, you know, it it overwinters in the soil, but it just builds up, and you know, we get spores floating all over the county, and uh I think it's gonna take a little while to crash out every field, but but we are seeing fields crash. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:54.000 Uh just as a reminder, you know, we typically see it first in the southwest part of the state, and that's gonna move north and east. 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.759 So I'll start getting calls, you know, where's the fungus? 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:10.079 But we know it's in southwest Georgia, but uh a little bit east of the interstate, uh, but it's gonna take, you know, another week or so before it moves over to the eastern side of our state. 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:19.359 Uh but you know, we we rarely spray aphids, but uh one of the reasons because this fungus comes and just takes them out every year. 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.720 It's just phenomenal. 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:22.319 Glad we have it. 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.759 Uh the other thing I'll mention uh is plant bugs. 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.799 And uh, you know, plant bugs the last couple years. 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:44.240 Uh Sarah and we went and looked at a lot of fields together, but you know, west of I-75, uh they're just becoming a more common pest, and that's true again this year. 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:57.359 If we go east, a lot more sporadic, but I have talked with some folks from the eastern side of the state that have picked up plant bugs enough that they're concerned and watching and they're hoping they're not gonna have to treat. 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:06.960 But typically uh we tend to see these plant bugs concentrate on some of our earliest planted cotton, and that held true again this year. 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:14.240 You know, once cotton begins putting on or squaring, Wes, I I I made it a point to say putting on. 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:17.200 I hope we don't have to talk about throwing off. 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:22.799 You know, if you listen to the to the beginning of the podcast of putting on, throwing off, and cutting out. 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.359 Well, let's just keep putting on and let's not throw off. 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:34.240 But uh, but you know, we're seeing that once cotton squares, you know, it becomes attractive, and we just kind of hold them. 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:48.160 And as more and more cotton squares, I'm not sure if we dilute plant bugs across all these acres or not, but you know, we have a problem now, and then it hopefully is just gonna slow down. 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:55.440 But one of the things I would encourage folks to do, you know, in these historical areas, let's stay on them. 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:57.920 Let's be timely with these inputs. 00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:07.920 Uh, if you're in one of these areas that plant bugs have become an annual problem, we need to

look at using diamond, which is an insect growth regulator. 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:09.839 Uh so let's be timely with that. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:18.079 If you have thrive on cotton, you know, we saw a tick up of thrive on cotton in some areas, and again, a lot of that has to do with plant bugs. 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:25.279 And uh probably don't need the diamond on a thrive-on variety, but uh they kind of work the same. 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:28.079 They help us just be able to manage the nymphs. 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:33.119 Neither one of those technologies is secure all, but they do make it manageable. 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:38.880 Uh we are picking up immature plant bugs in these areas, particularly on cotton that's blooming. 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:43.920 And uh, you know, it takes a little bit of time for a plant bug egg to hatch. 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:51.359 Uh, but you know, if you were gonna use diamond, a lot of times about first bloom is is the ideal timing for that first application. 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:57.920 But that's kind of where we are with plant bugs and uh again scout every field. 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:09.039 I mean, this stuff just changes, you know, and uh you can be within a mile or two and it just be a totally different game, Taylor. 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:12.240 And uh it's just just phenomenal. 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.279 But you know, be out there, let's make sure we're doing sweet swinging sweep nets on squaring cotton. 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:23.519 And hey, when you get nymphs, uh hate to say it, but the drop cloth is our best sampling tool. 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:36.880 That's a hard thing to do as a scout, but uh if you have problem fields, you know, you need to get a count so we can see, you know, access how we do when we do intervene uh with insecticides. 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.440 But uh that's where we are on plant bugs. 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:48.319 All right, the last thing, I still get more questions about jazz than anything else. 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:56.079 So we have now detected jazz in seven counties. 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:01.839 And those counties are Tiff Grady Brooks, Coffee, Bacon, Cockwit, and Appling. 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:04.079 It kind of makes sense. 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:12.640 Uh we probably are seeing slightly higher numbers to our east, just like in in 2025. 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:20.640 But uh we're trying to really understand uh where these things show up. 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.799 And when I say detected, that could be one whisp. 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:27.519 That means we detected a jazzet. 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.599 Like we found them first in Tifton this year, was the first county. 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:32.960 We detected. 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:38.319 But we found them first in Tiff County because we spent an exorbitant amount of time looking. 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:39.440 That's right. 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:41.119 Because we wanted to know. 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.720 You know, we the winter definitely impacted this insect. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:51.440 And uh, but if we can understand counties when we have a detection. 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.200 So when you say detection, that's different than infested. 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:56.000 Yes. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.920 That means we found one. 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:04.480 You know, I think Kale Cloud in Grady County has found like a total of maybe five or six. 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:05.359 But they were there. 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.119 Did he squish them all? 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:07.759 Oh yeah. 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:10.079 No reproduct uh like reproduction in field. 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.480 We haven't seen anything that we confirm can confirm to be reproduction. 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:21.839 We see nymphs, but there's a look-alike jazzed, exact same size, and we're trying to get those identified. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:29.599 But uh so there's a big difference between detected and and approaching to a point where we need to treat. 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:30.880 And that's another thing. 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:33.759 You know, let's say we detect a jazzed today. 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:40.000 Well, uh how long before we do get concerned about making an application? 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.559 Is it one generation, two generations? 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:45.119 I think it's probably two generations away. 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:46.960 That could be maybe four weeks. 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.400 So Jass has complete a generation every two weeks. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.039 So but that's gonna help us in the future. 00:33:53.279 --> 00:34:00.400 So if you're a grower consultant uh and you see a suspect, Jasset, you know, what we really like is a picture. 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:12.480 We can only identify the adults looking for the two spots, but we're keeping a map um of these detections, and that's gonna help us in the future. 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:16.239 You know, thank God we just started detecting them. 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:18.400 What if we would have detected them in May? 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:20.400 You know, it could have been a different game. 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:33.440 But the other thing I'll mention, and this is something that's intriguing, uh, if you're out looking for jazz, every detection that we've had has been on blooming cotton. 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.079 I find that interesting, you know? 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.480 And if we go back to 2025, Sarah, we spent a lot of time. 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:47.599 But initially, where we started treating jass was always our earliest plant of cotton. 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:50.239 And uh, you know, who knows? 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.480 We got a lot to figure out about this insect. 00:34:52.639 --> 00:35:00.719 Um, maybe there's something about the floral volatiles or whatever that attracts jas to blooming cotton. 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:02.000 I don't know, that

would be interesting. 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:03.840 I have a question for you, you may not have an answer to. 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.920 You know, okra is one of your sentinel plants. 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:09.360 An okra bloom looks similar to a cotton bloom. 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:10.079 Have you? 00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:12.960 And a hibiscus bloom actually does too because they're on hibiscus. 00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:17.599 Have you noticed on okra when y'all have had because okra we plant earlier, we plant around the spring's blooming. 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.880 Or you hadn't really, I mean, just curious since you said that about cotton. 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.320 You know, we're not monitoring okra. 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:27.119 We're as much as we were. 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:33.519 I mean, our initial detection here and in a couple counties was on okra. 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:33.840 Yep. 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.119 And in every case it was blooming. 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.159 But uh we're trying to keep this map. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:44.400 We have to be have consistency, so we're looking for detections on cotton. 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:48.400 And uh but yeah, there may be something there, you know. 00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:49.360 I don't know. 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:53.440 I I've got okra in my at my house, I've got hibiscus at my house. 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:54.960 I hadn't seen a jass. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:58.400 But I've got like six ochra plants. 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:04.800 You know, it's hard to keep I'm about tired of eating ochre off six plants, you know. 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:15.360 But uh hey, we're a long ways from having needing to treat jasses, and I I really want people to understand we're talking about detected. 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:29.679 And uh I can assure you, if we start seeing reproduction in fields and and we start seeing these populations grow, your county agent is gonna be the source of the most up-to-date information we have. 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:36.880 Actually, you know, tomorrow will be one year since we saw the first chassis in the state of Georgia. 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:37.519 Wow. 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:47.440 You know, a lot has happened, and you know, we're tracking probably pretty similar to, you know, if we would have been looking on cotton as hard as we are this year, last year, we'd probably have seen the same thing. 00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:51.119 Maybe they're at lower populations this year, we don't know. 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.239 But we'll learn more as every week passes. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:57.199 And uh so hey, let's keep looking. 00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:05.039 If you see some jazzes, try to get a picture of them, send them to your county agent because we want to really understand this movement. 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:11.440 I really think the winter weather, we killed them down to pretty pretty far in Florida, we think. 00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.239 I mean, we don't know, maybe a few survived. 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:18.559 You know, we had a big freeze way down into South Florida this year. 00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:19.360 Way, way down. 00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:21.920 Way, way down, like all the way down to Homestead. 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.199 Which is very rare. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:24.559 Yeah, it was very rare. 00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:35.360 So we just think it's in our interest to really understand how these things are moving back in and infesting the state of Georgia to help us in years to come. 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:37.360 But hey, that's about what I got. 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.679 And from an insect standpoint. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.800 We good, Wes? 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.920 We good, Tyler Sarah. 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:46.800 Hey, and if you have questions, be sure to contact the county agent. 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:52.800 Thank you for listening to this episode of Talking Cotton with the UGA Cotton Team. 00:37:52.960 --> 00:38:02.159 If you have any questions about anything we talked about today, or if there's anything you'd like for us to talk about in the future, please contact your local UGA County Extension Agent. 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:05.840 And as always, you can find us on all major podcast platforms. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:10.400 Be sure to like, share with your friends, and subscribe so you can stay up to date.