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Georgia Grain News 6-3-22 Agents, We are seeing a lot in corn fields this week. Corn is tasseling and silking and some of the oldest is at the end of pollination, and it looks pretty well pollinated in most cases. Blister stage (R2) marks the end of pollination and we quickly thereafter enter the Milk…
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A few things for you to consider, fresh from the field: 1) New technologies are great but you can control weeds without it. Nothing beats starting clean, using a strong residual herbicide (activated with moisture) at planting, followed by a timely POST (with more residual). The Palmer amaranth population in these soybean plots is both…
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“Cracking” Time Again on Peanuts (Prostko) Many peanut growers are in the field right now making “cracking” applications of paraquat (whether they really need it or not?). I always get tons of questions about product use rates. Check out these pictures from earlier today. These are rates I have been testing for years and they…
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by Bob Kemerait Rain for many growers is, as Luke Bryan says, “is a good thing” for growing a crop, but the combination of rain, warm temperatures, and corn approaching tassel does raise the ante for some important diseases. As of this morning, I don’t know of ANY soybean rust or southern corn rust in…
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Tracking the Bermudagrass Stem Maggot I am starting to work with our Center for Invasive Species to report/track the BSM population during the summer. Anyone can make a report of the sighting by clicking the first link and filling out a simple form. This can also be done with the EDDMapS app, but the website…
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Considerations for now: In Georgia, at least south of the “Gnat Line”, we had a fairly mild 2021-2022 winter. Regrowth cotton and volunteer peanuts and corn survived longer than was helpful and fed the nematodes that didn’t want to go to bed for the winter because soils were warm enough to keep them active. Nematodes…
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Row Crop Disease Update KemeraitThe severe weather threat many of us will be under this week has significant implications for our row crop growers, ESPECIALLY our cotton growers. Yes, it is early enough in April that I know most cotton growers in the state have not begun to plant yet. But I am sure there…
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