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Brooks County
UGA Extension Office

Our Impact

Making A Difference in Our County

University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is working hard for its constituents. The following are examples of Extension’s impact in the county over the past year.

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Agriculture and Natural Resources

Brooks County Extension is committed to meeting the needs of Brooks County commodity producers through field troubleshooting and research efforts. Annually, Brooks County Extension conducts numerous research trials and projects to assist producers with agronomic production issues and challenges. Numerous research trails and monitored projects happended in 2024. Agents monitored disease and insects in multiple crops including corn, soybean, citrus, pecans, and peppers. Brooks County has a farm gate value of over 195 million dollars. In one of the county's largest commodities, an on-farm cotton variety trial was planted and harvested in the county. The office hosted seven production meetings in 2024. We communicate to our producers by sending out production updates through the email listserv. In the fall, we were able to check peanuts for maturity for producers in the county. Over 300 samples were checked between August and November. Weather Assessments were conducted around the county twice due to Tropical Storm Debbie and Hurricane Helene. With Hurricane Helene, cotton from four fields was hand harvested before and after the storm to collect yield loss. The samples also ran through the ginning process to assess quality.

4-H Youth Development

The mission of Georgia 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and forming attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive, and contributing members of society. This is the driving force of Brooks County 4-H. Youth participate in “hands-on” learning experiences, focused on agricultural and environmental issues, agriculture awareness, leadership, communication skills, foods and nutrition, health, energy conservation, and citizenship. All activities and events are conducted in a positive environment, with guidance from caring mentors and adult volunteers, where youth are given opportunities to step into leadership roles.

In Brooks County, youth have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of learning activities and competitive events. In 2024, Brooks County had a total enrollment of 354 students and a total of 19 clubs. Monthly club meetings were held in all 4th and 5th grade science classrooms in Brooks County. Twelve students participated in Cloverleaf District Project Achievenment, and one student participated in Junior/Senior District Project Achievment. Twenty-four students attended Cloverleaf Camp at Rock Eagle 4-H Center in June 2024. Brooks County 4-H'ers participated in multiple fundraisers during the 2024 program year, including selling Vidalia onions to support summer camp registration fees. Brooks County 4-H'ers also participated in multiple events, including dairy and swine livestock shows, 4-H2O Camp, Mission Make It, Brooks County Farm Days and 4-H Day at the Georgia National Fair. Brooks County 4-H continues to have an impact on our community and always strives to "make the best better"!