{"id":850,"date":"2022-05-24T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/?p=850"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:36:58","slug":"row-crop-disease-update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/2022\/05\/row-crop-disease-update-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Row Crop Disease Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Bob Kemerait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rain for many growers is, as Luke Bryan says, \u201cis a good thing\u201d for growing a crop, but the combination of rain, warm temperatures, and corn approaching tassel does raise the ante for some important diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this morning, I don\u2019t know of ANY soybean rust or southern corn rust in Georgia. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As corn approaches tassel, growers, especially those hoping for high yields, should ask themselves whether a fungicide is warranted now or not. As NO southern corn rust or tar spot are known in Georgia yet, I believe growers can take a \u201cwait and see approach\u201d and save, for now, on the expense of an application. Given weather &nbsp;conditions at the moment and the price of corn, I can understand why some corn growers in SW GA are already spraying their crop for insurance. I\u2019d probably do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, by the way- I have been asked if I thought with current very warm conditions and now with moisture if it would be prudent for peanut growers to have some protection against white mold prior to 60 days after planting. \u00a0I think the answer is \u201cyes\u201d. If you are using straight chlorothalonil, I\u2019d mix 7.2 fl oz of teb with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bob Kemerait Rain for many growers is, as Luke Bryan says, \u201cis a good thing\u201d 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\u2019t know of ANY soybean rust or southern corn rust in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}