Mr. Taylor Sills, Executive Director of the Georgia Cotton Commission, joins Drs. Camp Hand and Phillip Roberts to discuss the 2025 Georgia Cotton Commission Mid-Year Meeting. Registration and agenda can be found at https://georgiacottoncommission.org/. 

Drs. Phillip Roberts, Wes Porter, Bob Kemerait, and Camp Hand discuss the current status of the Georgia crop and some thoughts surrounding insect management, management of foliar diseases, and irrigation. 

Drs. Phillip Roberts, Wes Porter, Henry Sintim, and Camp Hand discuss considerations surrounding the current status of Georgia's cotton crop, from newly planted cotton to cotton entering peak bloom. 

Drs. Phillip Roberts, Bob Kemerait, and Camp Hand discuss some considerations as we wind up planting and thoughts about cotton that is beginning to square throughout Georgia. 

Drs. Wes Porter and Phillip Roberts and Sarah Hobby discuss planting progress and dialing in planters for current conditions as well as early season insect pest management.

Drs. Camp Hand, Henry Sintim, Wes Porter, Bob Kemerait, and Phillip Roberts join Sarah Hobby in the podcast studio on the UGA Tifton Campus to discuss planting conditions and at-plant decisions to be made.  Topics include planter setup and seeding rates, fertility including starter fertilizers, poultry litter and side-dress timings as well as the importance of Potassium.  Nematodes and disease management, thrips management and the Thrips Infestation Predictor Model, and thoughts on management of conventional cotton are also discussed.

Drs. Wes Porter, Phillip Roberts, Bob Kemerait and Camp Hand discuss early season considerations with respect to planter and irrigation setup, thrips management, nematode and seedling disease considerations, and other topics pertinent to the early part of the 2025 growing season. 

Dr. Culpepper discusses new products for 2025, ESA requirements for newly labeled herbicides, utilizing integrated weed management tactics, and the dicamba situation (prior to Christmas). 

Dr. Porter discusses considerations for irrigation scheduling and trying to make the most of inputs in 2025.

Dr. Taylor Singleton discusses updates on sustainability and pesticide stewardship for the 2025 growing season.