Disease
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GA Cotton Commission: “Our 2022 Annual Meeting is set for Wednesday, January 26 at the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center! Pre-register at https://uga.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&SessionID=fh3ff1fbofg4fc1&Lang=*Visit https://georgiacottoncommission.org/speakers-announced…/ for more information about the meeting and to view an agenda!” Please join us for the 2022 Northeast Georgia Beef Cattle Short Course. This year we have a great program with…
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Posted in: Cotton, Disease, Economics, Events/Programs, Fertility, Insect, Peanuts, Pecans, Watermelon, Weed Science
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For Cattlemen and anyone concerned about ticks. UGA presented this webinar yesterday (Nov 10th) via Dr. Michael Yabsley, Wildlife Disease Professor in the Warnell School of Forestry, about the invasive Asian longhorned tick. Recording of the webinar about this tick that was first confirmed in GA about two months ago is below: Time Stamps: 1:46…
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Cotton Defoliant Update Dr. Camp Hand: “The story of the next couple of weeks is cooler temperatures. For the most part, highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s for the next 10 to 14 days; some of our defoliants will not work as well so we may need to use some different rates…
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Here’s to hoping the forecasted drier weather sticks around for the sake of our peanut fields, many which have drowned out but are ready to dig, and for cotton that’s battling boll rot. Dr. Bob’s words on extending peanut fungicide programs past 120 days: Chlorothalonil alone as a season-long stand-alone leaf spot material may not…
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Assortment of pictures sent to Dr. Bob end of last week, and yes…all these symptoms can be found in the Crisp Co area right now: Nutritional/Physiological Problem on Corn Stemphylium Leaf Spot on Cotton Areolate Mildew on Cotton Likely Early Leaf Spot on Peanut Late Leaf Spot on Peanut Foliar Burn on Peanut White mold…
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Dr. Bob K: “The Big 3 foliar diseases of cotton: target spot, areolate mildew, and bacterial blight, have been found. While ‘the sky is not falling’, the best management of areolate mildew and target spot is with judicious and timely fungicide applications. I believe yield of cotton can be affected by target spot until the…
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From Doc Bob-K: “We are in the ‘thick of it’ as far as diseases go for corn, peanuts, cotton, and soybeans. The weather, now the rising temperatures, and the development of the crop are near-perfect for disease development and rapid spread. 1. Soybean rust confirmed (easily confirmed) in Sentinel Plots (soybeans now, not just kudzu)…