This past week had many cold mornings in Georgia. Thankfully these blueberry bushes are protected from the frost with this frost protection system installed by Triest Ag.

We're just over a week out from the Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) Annual Conference in Westminster, CO on February 18 & 19th. If you're in the area we hope you join Triest Ag for a great event and to discuss your soil health and irrigation solutions for 2025.

Join Triest Ag Group at the Southern Farm Show in Raleigh, NC at the NC State Fairgrounds this week, February 5-7,2025. Our team will be there in booth #1002 ready to help you get ready for 2025 growing with soil health, irrigation, and plant nutrition solutions.

Are you ready to dive into an exciting journey with one of the leading agricultural companies? TriEst Ag Group is on the lookout for passionate and driven interns to join our dynamic team. Learn more and apply here: https://triestag.com/careers/ (Read More)

Triest Ag is having a great morning here at the Illiana Watermelon Convention in French Lick, Indiana. Attendees can be sure to stop by our table to talk with Tony about your 2025 watermelon crop plans.

It's a crisp and beautiful day in Dover, FL at the FSGA Tailgate event. Triest Ag Group's very own Florida Sales team is having a great time visiting with and serving our Florida Strawberry Growers nice warm seafood gumbo.

Triest is representing at the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah, GA. Stop by the Caneberry Education session in room 200/201 at 9:30-10:00AM to listen to Karen Blaedow with NC State University and our own Josh Mays present on Raspberry Annual Production Systems. It will be an overview of a new annual production system for raspberry that is in development that you won't want to miss.

Look for Triest Ag in booth #701 at the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah, GA later this week, January 9-11th. Triest Representitives be there ready to talk about what soil health, irrigation, ag technology, grafted plants, and plant nutrition look like for your 2025 plans. (Read More)

John Washington discusses how this lawn of St Augustine grass which has not been replaced with any new sod for 15 years.

"It is managed with high potassium and key essential micronutrients at low levels and soil biome enhancing food sources. Low nitrogen and phosphorous are used as needed but not over applied ! All of the commercial lawncare companies only apply high Nitrogen, as well as weed killers and insecticides, but they do not address the fundamental needs of turfgrass management in Florida. The different approach on the lawn shown here results in stronger grass, less need for mowing (every two weeks in summer), higher drought resistance, fungal disease prevention, and better root systems. The cost and input is actually less than the commercial services. One application of imidacloprid is made per year (July or August) for mole crickets and such. Spot treatment of weeds where and when necessary, usually 2-3 times per year, and a foliar nutrition spray high in potassium and including phosphite for Pythium management. I am not selling anything here, just sharing that there are effective and environmentally sound, and economical ways to manage some really nice turfgrass in Florida."

Triest Ag Group demonstrates that quality filtration systems can improve water quality and increase the overall efficiency of irrigation systems. The irrigation specialist evaluates the field's size, soil qualities and water sources and balance it with the water needs based on crops to come up with a customized irrigation system for you.

Watermelon farmers are planning ahead for quality grafted watermelon plants that offer improved root systems, increased vigor, better overall plant and vine health, and that's just a start. Tri-Hishtil provides conventional and certified organic grafted watermelons grown in a 128-cell vacuum formed tray.

Our Director of R&D Dr. Randy (RM) Huckaba was in Eureka, North Carolina harvesting a sweetpotato experiment. The test treatments included TELONE™ II as well as TELONE™/Chloropicrin combinations.

Adrienne Gorny from NC State Extension was also onsite helping with the harvest and evaluation of the results.

The results showed that TELONE™ provided very good control of the devastating guava root-knot nematode.

It was a challenging research season with dry weather in June and then excessively wet weather in August/September; however, the results showed that TELONE™ provided very good control of the devastating guava root-knot nematode.