Hot and hotter. \u00a05:20 AM and my air conditioner is running. \u00a0I\u2019m not the only one awake now. \u00a0Who else is awake? White mold and Southern corn rust are awake. They never sleep. \u00a0I guarantee the warm night temperatures now \u00a0and \u00a0the humidity are fueling them. I can almost hear them. \u00a0Be prepared.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s going to be hot today. It\u2019s going to be hot tomorrow and for the rest of this week and next week. It may be hot forever for all I know. That\u2019s why UGA has Pam Knox. Not only can she tell you how long it is going to be hot, but also why it is hot. All I can tell you is that \u201chot and hotter\u201d coupled with high humidity, scattered showers, and irrigation adds up to more white mold in our peanuts and more southern rust in our corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My advice is that peanut growers be aggressive in fighting white mold this year. \u00a0When this disease is killing some cotton in GA and I saw a picture of white mold on corn in FL, you KNOW it is a big year for white mold<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Corn growers as well must remain vigilant for southern corn rust. Hopefully it is too blank hot for tar spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hot and hotter. \u00a05:20 AM and my air conditioner is running. \u00a0I\u2019m not the only one awake now. \u00a0Who else is awake? White mold and Southern corn rust are awake. They never sleep. \u00a0I guarantee the warm night temperatures now \u00a0and \u00a0the humidity are fueling them. I can almost hear them. \u00a0Be prepared.\u00a0 It\u2019s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/benhillcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}