Peanuts
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Rain delays and/or late planting have resulted in continual inquiries about peanut herbicide + fungicide tank-mixes and their potential effects on weed control and crop injury. UGA will never be able to adequately address all concerns with 90,000+ potential tank-mixtures in peanuts. Here is a quick review of some of the published data: 1) When 2,4-DB is tank-mixed with…
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Its Time to Pull Pegging Zone Samples By Andrew Sawyer It has been said, “If it don’t rain, it don’t matter.” We are putting out landplaster in peanuts now to supplement calcium. If we don’t have enough calcium, we get “pops”. This usually happens more in dryland fields as we also need water to move the Ca…
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Disease Update by Bob Kemerait CORN: No southern rust has been found in Georgia to date. Apparently, there is not a lot in Florida either. Spores from Florida are typically a threat to our corn crop. Little disease there means lower risk here in Georgia. Jason Brock and I are seeing a fair amount…
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By Bob Kemerait Peanuts and disease: Conditions are perfect now for leaf spot disease to occur. A significant portion of our crop is approaching 30 days after planting and wet fields are likely to keep growers our of the field. Growers who are delayed making their first application should consider using or mixing a systemic…
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Row Crop Disease Update by Bob Kemerait Plenty of disease issues to consider now. Please let me know if you have questions. To date, no soybean rust has been found this year in Georgia. To date, no southern corn rust has been found this year in Georgia. (We have found a small amount of…
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May, 2018 Peanut Pointers May, 2018 Peanut Pointers Entomology Mark Abney As of 4 May relatively few peanuts are out of the ground, and I have received no reports of thrips injury. Numbers on our thrips traps indicated that tobacco thrips dispersal began around mid-April. Weekly captures remained constant for two weeks and then dropped…
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Zidua in Peanuts (Prostko) It appears as though the following statement on the supplemental Zidua peanut label has many people confused: “Apply Zidua as a broadcast spray to peanut from “at-cracking” stage to first true leaf stage through beginning of pod development.” A few points to consider: a) For whatever reason, most people do…
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By: Bob Kemerait After the rains at the beginning of this week, I expect farmers will soon be moving quickly to start planting cotton, peanuts and soybeans. There are two important points that I want to remind you of. Choose planting date as carefully as you can. Cool wet soils (or cool wet conditions…
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Checklist for Early-Season Disease Control Bob Kemerait Disease and nematode management is a critical component of successful peanut production; the foundation for achieving success is established even as the seed is closed in the furrow. Within the next month, the 2018 peanut season will have begun in earnest. In fact, some peanuts will be planted…
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By: Dr. Eric Prostko 1) How do I control ryegrass prior to planting peanuts if I suspect that I might have glyphosate resistance? Select 2EC @ 8 oz/A or Select Max 0.97EC @ 16 oz/A (or generic equivalents) + 1% v/v COC would be a good choice for this problem. Remember that ryegrass stage of growth is…