{"id":551,"date":"2016-06-06T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/?p=551"},"modified":"2016-06-06T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:31:10","slug":"southern-corn-rust-confirmed-in-wayne-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/2016\/06\/southern-corn-rust-confirmed-in-wayne-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Corn Rust Confirmed in Wayne County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Southern corn rust was\u00a0found and confirmed yesterday (June 6)\u00a0in\u00a0two different fields in Wayne County.\u00a0\u00a0It means\u00a0 that not only do we have perfect weather for the disease but that southern corn rust is found nearly from one edge of the Coastal Plain to the other and could be anywhere in between.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts from Dr. Bob Kemerait about the risk for southern corn rust across the Coastal Plain of Georgia continues to increase because of the facts listed below:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">\u00a0 A. Southern rust was found so early and at opposite ends of the Coastal Plain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">\u00a0 B.\u00a0 Much of the crop is moving towards (or has reached)\u00a0tasseling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">\u00a0 C.\u00a0 The current weather conditions (storm and rain) favors infection and spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Management of southern rust involves judicious use of fungicides.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">A. An inexpensive fungicide like tebuconazole is effective against southern rust,\u00a0but\u00a0does not have the broad-spectrum activity or the length of protective-window that strobilurin, SDHI or combination products have.\u00a0 These products cost more, but do have added benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">B.\u00a0 I believe that corn should be protected from rust from very early tassel through the dough stage (R6) of development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">C.\u00a0 In a severe year, I have seen as much as an 80 bu\/A increase where a fungicide was applied.\u00a0 25 bu\/A is certainly a very reasonable expectation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ent.uga.edu\/pest-management\/Commercial\/GA-Pest-Management-2016-Commercial-FIELD-CORN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view fungicides listed in the 2016 GA Pest Management Handbook labeled for\u00a0managing southern corn rust. They are listed on page 63-64.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern corn rust was\u00a0found and confirmed yesterday (June 6)\u00a0in\u00a0two different fields in Wayne County.\u00a0\u00a0It means\u00a0 that not only do we have perfect weather for the disease but that southern corn rust is found nearly from one edge of the Coastal Plain to the other and could be anywhere in between.\u00a0 Thoughts from Dr. Bob Kemerait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-fungicides","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bullochag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}