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The farmers in Baker County and southwest Georgia are primarily producing cotton and peanuts. Corn production at the current 200-bushel yield generally does not economically compete with 1,200-pound cotton or 5,000-pound peanuts. If farmers could produce 300-bushel corn per acre, then corn would compete with cotton as a rotational crop with peanuts. The Baker County Cooperative Extension agent organized a high-yield corn production meeting for 90 growers and had the UGA corn agronomist present the latest advances in corn production. Four Baker County farmers committed to grow a combined 1,490 acres of corn using the UGA 300-bushel corn program. The 2013 irrigated corn production season was one of the worst in recent history, due to rainfall and cooler temperatures. The 300-bushel program spent an extra $255 per acre to sell an extra $322 per acre of corn. The average increase net income for this 300-bushel corn program was $67 per acre over the traditional 200-bushel corn program. Was the UGA 300-bushel corn program worth it? Every farmer answered yes. They wished they had done this earlier and they wanted to continue this next year.

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