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Peanut Maturity Checks Call me 229-507-8862 to check peanut maturity using the hull scrape board. I have no set days or times. Cook County Young Farmers will have a meeting Sept 1 beginning at 10 AM at Cook Extension Office where we will be checking peanut maturity there as well. Bring your samples to be…
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TARGET SPOT IN COTTON Growers most likely to see benefit from applying fungicide for target spot have a crop with 1) high yield potential, 2) excellent growth, 3) disease appears at or soon after first bloom, and 4) grower makes fungicide application by 3rd week of bloom. Growers least likely to see a benefit from…
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Thursday, July 28, 2022 at Lowndes Extension Office. Pre-Registration: $20.00; Walk-In: $30.00; Call (229-333-5185) & Mail Checks to:Lowndes County Extension/4-H 2102 E. Hill Avenue Valdosta, GA 31601 Call Lowndes Extension Office for more info: 229-333-5185
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With the rain comes increase disease pressure. Here’s some info on disease ID and management as well as peanut growth regulators. Fungicides (Headline, Priaxor, Quadris, Elatus, Miravis Top, and Twinline) can reducepremature defoliation resulting from target spot. Based upon trial results, timings of applications that most consistently reduce premature defoliation are those that are made…
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Here’s info from Dr. Abney – UGA Peanut Entomologist. Summary – Scout; UGA research shows diflubenzuron not effective in controlling LCB. The two insecticides recommended for lesser cornstalk borer management in peanut are chlorantraniliprole (Vantacor/Prevathon) and novaluron (Diamond). “There are two big mistakes that we want to try to avoid, and both of them can…
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Examples of peanut fungicide programs is a constant request. Here are some examples from 2022 UGA Peanut Pest Management Reference Guide below. Also click on the links below to see data from previous year’s Cook Peanut Fungicide trials. (fungicide costs for 2021 data was collected late summer 2021.) 2021 Peanut Fungicide Trial Data 2020 Peanut…
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Below are some notes from Kemeriat (UGA plant disease specialist). When to start a fungicide application – when about 20% of field has tasseled. Southern Corn rust has been found in Grady and Wayne County as of June 2. “Single mode-of-action products like Tebuconazole, Quadris, and Domark are “good” but have a two-week protective window.…
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“Cracking” Time Again on Peanuts (Prostko) Many peanut growers are in the field right now making “cracking” applications of paraquat (whether they really need it or not?). I always get tons of questions about product use rates. Check out these pictures from earlier today. These are rates I have been testing for years and they…
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Info from Lenny Wells. “Temperatures across Georgia have increased dramatically this week following a cool spring. The thermometer has climbed above 90 every day this week and the forecast is for 96 degrees today. Each year when this happens, we begin to get leaves scorching on young trees and see some die-back here and there. …
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Sparks UGA Weather Station. 1.78″ rain since April 1. Cotton/Peanut Seedling Disease and Weather – Kemerait Question: “Bob, our temperatures are going to be in the 90s this week. Do we really need to worry about seedling diseases? More importantly, do our growers need to be worried about adding in-furrow fungicides?” Answer: Rhizoctonia solani is…
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