Peanuts
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Peanut Maturity Clinics!! The Colquitt County Extension will be offering peanut maturity clinics beginning this Friday, August 25, 2017 until the end of September. The clinics will be offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM and will be held at the Colquitt County Extension office. If you need any peanuts done earlier please let me…
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Colquitt County Cotton Defoliation and Peanut Harvest Update!! The Colquitt County Cooperative Extension will be hosting a cotton defoliation and peanut harvest update for area growers on Thursday, August 31, 2017 at noon. This update will be held at the Colquitt County Extension office and will be sponsored by Adama. Drs. Jared Whitaker, UGA Cotton…
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Glen Harris, Professor, Extension Agronomist – Environmental Soil & Fertilizer University of Georgia Because the peanut plant is a deep-rooted legume that fixes nitrogen and is a good scavenger of “P&K’, most people say it doesn’t need a lot of fertilizer. That is not necessarily true and if you come up short on something like…
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I have been receiving a few questions about peanut inoculants from area growers and retailers. Below are a few comments from Scot Monfort, UGA Peanut Agronomist, on this subject. Inoculants Last year was a very hot and dry year. In those conditions, the survivability of the living Bradyrhizobia bacteria needed to inoculate peanuts is generally…
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The Peanut Rx for 2017 has been updated. Several new varieties have been included this year. Also, the impact of planting date and risk to leaf spot disease has been adjusted. ONLY THE NICHINO and BAYER Peanut Rx risk index is current for 2017!!! The others (SipCam, Syngenta and DuPont) are from 2016; we have…
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When growers bring in peanut samples to County Extension maturity clinics, often they ask about when to terminate fungicide applications. Well, it all depends on their particular disease situation they are facing. Bob Kemerait, UGA Peanut Plant Pathologist, has given some great suggestions to answer these questions.. Below are some typical situations that peanut…
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I have been getting questions about managing diseases in peanuts. Below is a link to the new updated Peanut Rx. The Peanut Disease Risk Index, developed by researchers and Extension specialists at the University of Georgia, the University of Florida, and Auburn University, is officially known as “PEANUT Rx”. It allows growers to assess their…
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UGA Peanut Team entomologist, Dr. Abney, has given the following update on thrips management. Peanut seed are going in the ground in Georgia, and that means thrips and thrips management questions are coming. The following is an updated version of the thrips management summary for 2016. This list is not all inclusive, but it provides…
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Cotton and soybean varieties with tolerance to auxin herbicides (2,4-D or dicamba) are nearing commercialization. Prior to making applications of dicamba to dicamba-tolerant cotton/soybean or 2,4-D to 2,4-D-tolerant cotton/soybeans in Georgia, growers will be required to attend the training “Using Pesticides Wisely”. The training will focus on helping applicators/growers make wise decisions when applying not…
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Colquitt County Extension Upcoming Meetings/Events for 2016 Extension/Other Meetings Date Location 2016 Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference Thurs.-Sun., Jan. 7-10, 2016 Savannah, Ga Area Melon Production Meeting Fri., Jan 15, 2016 @ 12:00 pm Tift County Extension Office Georgia Peanut Farm Show & Conference Thru., Jan 21, 2016 UGA Tifton Conference Center Ag Forecast…