{"id":901,"date":"2020-05-07T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/?p=901"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:31:55","slug":"cold-weather-and-planting-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/2020\/05\/cold-weather-and-planting-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Weather and Planting Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some tips for the cold front moving through this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you are dryland and you are afraid of losing needed moisture then I would go ahead and plant<\/li><li>If you are irrigated, you could hold off until the cold front moves out.<\/li><li>If you have questionable seed quality, I would wait to plant until it warms up.<\/li><li>Soil temperatures can be different across the state. (check the <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiaweather.net\/index.php?zip=31794\">Tift weather station<\/a>)<ul><li>The eastern part of the state will be at more risk than the Southwest part of the state.<\/li><li>Freshly turned soil will be colder than normal \u2013 let field sit for a day or so to warm up<\/li><li>For strip-tillage fields with cover, soils are typically colder than conventional tillage fields so you may want to allow extra time for soils to warm up.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>What if I have a lot of acres and need to keep planting or I just want to keep planting?<ul><li>a. Make sure you are planting with good quality seed<\/li><li>Add appropriate in-furrow fungicide to help with seedling disease<\/li><li>Do not plant more than 2.5 inches deep<\/li><li>Try not to add irrigation during the coldest days where night time temperatures are in the 40s and 50s and the day time temperatures are below 70-75. If you need to go ahead and add irrigation do not apply more than is needed to activate herbicides.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some tips for the cold front moving through this weekend. If you are dryland and you are afraid of losing needed moisture then I would go ahead and plant If you are irrigated, you could hold off until the cold front moves out. If you have questionable seed quality, I would wait to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peanut","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/tiftcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}