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Although we have had several days of relatively cool spring weather, overall we have had a warmer start to the season than we did last year. As such, the first large peak of San Jose scale crawler activity is earlier this year compared to last year. Crawlers have already been observed this season. However, with…
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I am a little late with the post for this year, but with the cooler temperature this spring, the scale insects have been slow to develop as well. However, with the warmer temperatures, the scale will begin to develop, so if you haven’t gotten out your delayed-dormant spray yet, there is still time. For delayed…
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Good morning everyone. We are in that time of the year in which we count our chill hours/portions accumulated during the season. As a refreshment, we have multiple sources of information that can be used. Please refer to our previous post https://site.extension.uga.edu/peaches/2025/01/chill-data-sites-and-new-tools-for-dynamic-model-data/ for more detail information of what sources can be found out there to…
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Good evening everyone. As I have mentioned at our various meetings recently, chlorpyrifos is still under review by the EPA. To give commenters more time to provide input, the EPA is reopening the public comment period on their proposed rule to revoke certain tolerances for chlorpyrifos. The proposed rule and commenting form can be found…
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I imagine that all of us are looking into our respective locations to see how much chill we are accumulating this winter season. As a brief review and for anyone that is new to this business, we have our traditional models: 1) The Weinberger Model (# hours below 45F) and 2) The Modified Weinberger Model…
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Peach evaluation is winding down in 2024 with few edible fruits on trees in variety and seedling blocks at the USDA Byron Station. 2024 was a special peach cropping year for breeding at the station. First, peach fruit set was incredibly heavy on a majority of seedling, selection and cultivar trees at the station, at…
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The USDA-ARS stone fruit program at Byron, GA has released two new early season peach cultivars named ‘May Joy’ (Fig. 1) and ‘Cardinal Joy’ (Fig. 2). ‘May Joy’ requires ~650 chill hours and produces yellow-fleshed, clingstone fruit that typically ripen approximately a week before ‘Flavorich’ and 2-3 weeks before ‘Carored’ in early to mid May…