{"id":1506,"date":"2019-06-21T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:59:13","slug":"southern-corn-rust-confirmed-in-coffee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/2019\/06\/southern-corn-rust-confirmed-in-coffee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Corn Rust Confirmed in Coffee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Southern corn rust was confirmed in Coffee County today (6\/21\/2019). Dr. Kemerait says f<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">inding this southern corn rust in Coffee County does 3 things:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">A.\u00a0 It tells me that the extended period of wet we had a week or so ago helped to bring on our rust, that has been much delayed this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">B.\u00a0 It tells me that all corn across the southern Coastal Plain is currently at risk for infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">C.\u00a0 It tells me that even though there is currently not a whole lot of rust to be found, such could change quickly with our recent passing storms and high humidity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Corn already into dough\/dent stages should not need to be sprayed for rust.\u00a0 More than likely corn in late milk stage is safe as well. Corn at early milk, pollination\/silking and tassel is likely at risk. If you are going to spray a fungicide, sooner is better.\u00a0 The more disease in a field, the harder it is to control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Growers in our area should definitely be on alert. There has not been any Southern Corn Rust found in the sentinel plot in Bulloch County, but if the weather pattern continues as it has this week we are definitely at risk. Be prepared to protect your corn as we move forward and I will keep you updated with anymore finds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern corn rust was confirmed in Coffee County today (6\/21\/2019). Dr. Kemerait says finding this southern corn rust in Coffee County does 3 things: A.\u00a0 It tells me that the extended period of wet we had a week or so ago helped to bring on our rust, that has been much delayed this year. B.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-fungicides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}