{"id":81,"date":"2018-04-23T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/?p=81"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:41:33","slug":"disease-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/2018\/04\/disease-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Bob Kemerait<\/p>\n<p>After the rains at the beginning of this week, I expect farmers will soon be moving quickly to start planting cotton, peanuts and soybeans.\u00a0 There are two important points that I want to remind you of.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Choose planting date as carefully as you can.\u00a0 Cool wet soils (or cool wet conditions in the forecast) greatly increase risk of seedling diseases caused by pathogens such as Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium sp.\u00a0 Planting into hot dry conditions (peanut) greatly increases risk to Aspergilllus crown rot.\u00a0 I know most of you don&#8217;t need to be reminded of this; however choosing planting date based upon CALENDAR DATE can impact risk to tomato spotted wilt; choosing planting date based on SOIL and ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS can have a huge impact on losses to seedling diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best management practices to manage seedling diseases are to establish rapid germination and vigorous growth.\u00a0 Good seed, good seed treatments, warm soils, good moisture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Corn in my plots is already at the V3-V4 stage and in many commercial fields more advanced than that.\u00a0 This week I have already had call from a couple of you asking what growers can do AFTER emergence to protect their corn crop from nematodes.\u00a0 (Read:\u00a0 &#8220;Ouch!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a nematode problem and I didn&#8217;t put anything out at planting!\u00a0 What do I do now??&#8221;)\u00a0 The truth is that there is NOTHING that can be done as far as nematicide at this point; all you can do is try to grow the crop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>REMINDER:\u00a0 From number 2 above, growers get only ONE CHANCE to manage important diseases and nematodes affecting corn, cotton, peanuts, soybeans and other crops.\u00a0 Once the furrow is closed, the variety (resistant or susceptible), planting date, and use of seed treatments, in-furrow products and fumigants are all determined.\u00a0 There is no going back.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 There are two important points that I want to remind you of. &nbsp; \u00a0Choose planting date as carefully as you can.\u00a0 Cool wet soils (or cool wet conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton","category-disease","category-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}