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2 Ways to Improve Fungicide Spray Coverage and Canopy Penetration Aug 9, 2021 | Written by Simerjeet Virk and Bob Kemerait For peanut growers, timely and effective fungicide applications throughout the season are an important tool to manage and protect yield from diseases like white mold and leaf spot. Considering the recent rains and wet field conditions, peanut growers are…
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Custer’s Last Stand or Using Wipers or Mowers For Late-Season Weed Control in Peanut Fields (Prostko) At some point, peanut growers must realize that it is futile to continue spraying herbicides over the top of their crop. Either the weeds are too big and/or pre-harvest intervals cannot be followed. In that case, there are 2…
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Summarized Row Crop Information from Ben Reeves Berrien County AgentCotton Target Spot- Conditions (wet weather, hot, humid, rank growth) are favorable right now for the development of Target Spot in the cotton canopy. When checking your field for the disease start at the bottom interior of the plant. Consider a fungicide application if cotton has…
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Sunbelt Expo Field Day That Was Rescheduled for Thursday August 12, 2021 is now VIRTUALIt is with much disappointment that the 2021 Field Day scheduled as an in-person event for August 12 has been changed to a VIRTUAL ONLY experience.While we have given every effort to host the event as an in-person experience, additional rain…
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A few important updates. 1. Soybean rust now confirmed in soybean sentinel plots in Midville, Burke County. Payton Sapp could only keep this disease at bay for so long from his county. His daughter would have shut the disease down. She is a fighter; gets that from her mother. Soybean producers across the SE…
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Cotton Fertilizer InformationCotton planting is scattered across our planting window. Abundant rainfall has hampered and or prevent entry to many infield procedures this year. Please refer to the 2021 UGA Cotton Production Guide here https://www.ugacotton.com/production-guide/ for details. Sidedress N between first square and first bloom depending on growth and color (toward first square if slow…
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Rain Delays and Weed Control (Prostko) Recent rains over the last few days at the UGA Ponder Farm (1.75″+) have kept me out of the field for today so I thought it would be a good time to squeeze in a quick blog. The frequent rain showers we have had over the last month or…
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2021 Row Crop Disease Update 21 July 20, 2021 Greetings- Since sending out recommendations on disease management opportunities for peanut, I have been asked a couple of questions that I think will be of common interest to many, so I’ll try to answer them here. It is important to remember that the recommendations were based…
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2021 Row Crop Disease Update 19 July Greetings: Peanut: Many of our peanut fields have reached, or are rapidly approaching, 60 days after planting. During this time of the season it is important to protect a peanut crop from white mold and from leaf spot diseases. Currently, rainfall has been abundant in many of our…
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Weather continues to be extremely favorable for infection and development of disease in our row crops. Rain is a very good thing and I don’t want all of it to go away, but rain now is not only resulting in development of disease but also keeping growers (and me) from making timely fungicide applications. Some…
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