June 2021

  • Rain and more rain has been the story this week. This weather is ripe for an outbreak of disease. Peanuts: leaf spot and white mold are active. If you haven’t sprayed your first fungicide yet I would do so as soon as I could get into the field. I would go with something systemic and…

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  • Peanuts: Tobacco budworms have been found in a few fields but the threshold has been low. My count was 1 caterpillar per 3ft of row and we need at least 4 caterpillars per row foot to trigger a spray. We’ll continue to watch for them over the next few weeks. The fields I looked at…

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  • We finally got some rain and I hate to fuss but we got a little more than we hoped for. It has made getting back in the fields tougher but I’ll quit my bellyaching and be glad we got some. Another plus from the rain is that it should help with our thrips problem. Thrips…

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  • Lots of activity the past few weeks. Crops are up and we haven’t had any rain. Hopefully, that will change this weekend. Nutgrass continues to be a problem in certain areas. On peanuts, paraquat + basagran or storm + dual will help but remember that paraquat doesn’t need to go out on peanuts that are…

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