{"id":2634,"date":"2020-05-08T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2022-06-09T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T13:58:07","slug":"peanut-soil-temperature-and-soybean-rust-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/2020\/05\/peanut-soil-temperature-and-soybean-rust-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Soil Temperature and Soybean Rust Found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soil temps around the state are in the high 60\u2019s to high 70\u2019s. In our area they are still in the 70&#8217;s. The soil should be buffered from a few hours of cold temperatures during the night time as long as we are warming back in the high 70 to mid-80s during the day. The low 70\u2019s daytime and 50\u2019s night time temperatures for more than 1 to 2 days will drive the soil temps down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With cooler soil temps, Dr. Scott Montfort reminds us to consider the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you are dryland and you are afraid of losing needed moisture then I would go ahead and plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you are irrigated, you could hold off until cold front moves out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If you have questionable seed quality, I would wait to plant until it warms up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Soil temperatures can be different across the state. (check your county weather stations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The eastern part of the state will be at more risk than the Southwest part of state.<\/li><li>Freshly turned soil will be colder than normal \u2013 let field sit for a day or so to warm up<\/li><li>For strip tillage fields with cover, soils are typically colder than conventional tillage fields so you may want to allow extra time for soils to warm up.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What if I have a lot of acres and need to keep planting or I just want to keep planting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make sure you are planting with good quality seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Add appropriate in furrow fungicide to help with seedling disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Do not plant more than 2.5 inches deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Try not to add irrigation during the coldest days where night time temperatures are in the 40s and 50s and the day time temperatures are below 70-75. If you need to go ahead and add irrigation do not apply more than is needed to activate herbicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soybeans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian soybean rust has been found on kudzu in Appling County. If you are growing soybeans you will most likely have to spray for rust. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soil temps around the state are in the high 60\u2019s to high 70\u2019s. In our area they are still in the 70&#8217;s. The soil should be buffered from a few hours of cold temperatures during the night time as long as we are warming back in the high 70 to mid-80s during the day. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/applingcrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}