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Farmer next door to the Park irrigating his late planted #cotton. This crop was behind sweet corn.

We're harvesting more border row #corn today. This is in Bob Kemerait chemigation study area.

Glad to have UGA Tifton's help with our #corn plot harvest this week (ahead of the rain). They brought over their Zurn plot combine and David to operate! Did have one minor setback.

SIRP’s September newsletter has been posted & can be viewed at striplingpark.caes.uga.edu/content/dam/ca…

Enjoy having grad student (& post doc) projects at the Park. Arash, ento. post-doc, along with helpers 'vacuumed' insects from cotton leaves then put out special cotton plants with and without 'cages' as they work to study predator-white fly interaction. UGA Entomology

Enjoyed the interaction today!

Started inverting #peanut plots this week. We'll harvest these in ~3-4 days after the vines dry.

Busy day at the Park yesterday. Inverted peanuts for Wes Porter-UGA Ext Ag Engineer, harvested green peanuts for Dr Pilon's study, and harvested dried peanuts for George Vellidis. Long but successful day.

Earlier this wk, we harvested #peanut plots for Wes Porter-UGA Ext Ag Engineer. Dr Porter's crew bagged, weighed, & subsampled 54 plots (2 varieties x 27 plots). Kudos to Luke, Miller, Mary Logan, and Hugo!

Last week we picked 3 passes of #cotton in Dr Snider's study (irrig x PGR x N rate). These were passes his grad student Ved applied defoliants on early, by backpack. Will defoliate the rest of the study next week.

SIRP was pleased to be the host site for a "Water School" program assoc. with the FloridanWater FACETS project. Great speakers shared important info related to water in SW Ga! We showed VRI in action and described fertigation in George Vellidis plots.

Thanks to Gail Cowie and Kristin Rowles with Albany State University Ga Water Planning & Policy Ctr for the photos.

Nice looking #cotton in Dr. Sintim's research plots here at the Park. We'll be picking these in just a few days.

Big news from our friends at the Georgia Water Planning & Policy Center at #AlbanyState University! Drought SWAP is a project designed to install deep aquifer wells for irrigators who rely on surface water in the Lower Flint River Basin. #GoldenTriangleRCD #conservation

Pleased to host a quick visit with our Auburn University friend Brenda V Ortiz 🇨🇴 🇺🇸. Good to catch up and talk precision ag including precision irrigation!

If u haven't heard, I'll be retiring Dec 1 as superintendent of UGA SIRP. It has been my honor and pleasure to serve UGA Agricultural & Environmental Sciences for 33+ years. Last nite UGA Tifton hosted a nice event for me. My administrators and fellow super's were there. Great folks.

It is impossible to quantify what Coach Dooley has meant to the University of Georgia. He embodied everything that UGA represents and made where this program stands today possible. Dawg Nation, we celebrate and honor the life of a DGD! Thank you, Coach.

Last week we did "Catch Can" tests under one of our lateral move systems. Verifying uniformity and application depth in the 9 VRI zones along the lateral's mainline.

Seems our 'well-seasoned' '85 Case_IH 1440 grain combine is always in need of repairs. But it gets the job done (most of the time). Harvested non-yield / border rows in George Vellidis soybean irrigation study today.

Well, the '22 season, and my 33 yr career with UGA Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, has come down to the last few rows of soybeans in my good friend George Vellidis's irrigation study here at the Park. Looking forward to "what's next"!