{"id":55,"date":"2018-05-31T11:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:36:32","slug":"corn-approaching-tassel-should-we-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/2018\/05\/corn-approaching-tassel-should-we-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Approaching Tassel&#8230; Should We Spray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking around the county,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve\u00a0noticed\u00a0some of our earliest planted corn is\u00a0nearing tassel stage if not already there. I had a few growers asking about fungicide applications and thought it would be a good topic to cover. Here are some ideas from UGA Extension Pathologist, Dr. Bob Kemerait:<\/p>\n<p><em>Corn and southern corn rust:\u00a0 We have NOT found southern corn rust in Georgia yet, but conditions are NEAR-PERFECT (tropical storm dumping rain, some of the crop approaching tassel, growers and scouts out of field).\u00a0 Why only &#8220;near-perfect&#8221;??\u00a0 It has been cooler as of late and cooler seems to hinder development and spread of southern rust.\u00a0 We often find southern rust in early June in our scouting program, so I expect we will find it soon.\u00a0 What to do:\u00a0 Because we have not found southern rust yet in our corn crop, I am not recommending that all growers with corn at tassel stage (or soon to be) spray with a fungicide.\u00a0 However, all growers should be aware of current risk AND they should pay attention to your alerts.\u00a0 Some growers may feel the opportunity of disease is here NOW and go ahead and spray their crop.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that.\u00a0 But I think growers who wait carefully are also making a good decision, at least for now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of pictures of corn in Bleckley County. This corn is already in the silking stage (R1) and has began pollination and fertilization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/corn-at-marvins1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/corn-at-marvins1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/corn-at-marvins1-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/corn-at-marvins1-1-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/pollination.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/pollination.jpg 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/pollination-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/files\/2018\/05\/pollination-104x138.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking around the county,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve\u00a0noticed\u00a0some of our earliest planted corn is\u00a0nearing tassel stage if not already there. I had a few growers asking about fungicide applications and thought it would be a good topic to cover. Here are some ideas from UGA Extension Pathologist, Dr. Bob Kemerait: Corn and southern corn rust:\u00a0 We have NOT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bleckleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}