Andrew Sawyer
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By mid-April, we have usually applied our pre-emergent herbicides to control summer annual weeds. With the dry weather, many growers have not accomplished this spray for 2026. This is the driest spring since I have served the pecan industry in East Georgia. Rainfall is necessary for pre-emergent herbicides to activate. Many of us did not
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This post was originally made by Dr. Lenny Wells in 2024. We are re-posting with a few updates since many growers are utilizing this method. Calibrating your nitrogen per acre is the purpose of this post. We are in the middle of fertilization season again and many are choosing to inject their N through the
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We discussed at county meetings how pecans generally do not have a significant crop following hurricanes. Well, it is clear from Blackshear to Augusta that we have flowers and pollination happening in Southeast Georgia. And our weather has been good for it. To see any flowers in our area gives us hope for a much
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A very seasoned and veteran pecan grower told me this week, “I’ve always believed if anything shut down the pecan industry it would be a hurricane.” One would expect hurricane damage in Augusta to come from an Atlantic storm, not a storm from the Gulf of Mexico. I want to acknowledge that there are more
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Since late May, I’ve seen a number of trees between the ages of 2nd and 4th leaf suddenly crash. The leaves remain on the tree after turning completely brown. All of this is during the dry and hot spell. It is essentially as if something is clogging the vascular system in which the leaves starve
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There has been a number of reports of a strange tissue growth on the stems of compound leaves and even around developing nutlet. There are three species of phylloxera on pecan. Most everyone is familiar with the species that causes warts on the leaves referred to as Leaf Phylloxera. Tiny, soft-body, aphid like insects feed
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Among many other things to do in the orchard, now is also the time to start our pre-emergent herbicide programs for the spring. With the price of glyphosate and glufosinate increase in 2021, I began working with pre-emergent herbicides for pecan at the Vidalia Onion Research Center. Though post emergent prices have come down some,
Posted in: Weed Management