{"id":473,"date":"2019-06-12T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/?p=473"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:03:14","slug":"time-for-pegging-zone-or-calcium-soil-test-in-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/2019\/06\/time-for-pegging-zone-or-calcium-soil-test-in-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for &#8220;Pegging Zone&#8221; or Calcium Soil Test in Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now is a good time for peanut growers to pull pegging zone soil samples.\u00a0 This test is to check the calcium levels at a 3-inch depth, where the peanut pegs and pods will be developing.\u00a0 On our runner varieties, if there is at least 500 lbs\/A of soil test calcium <strong>AND<\/strong> if the calcium to potassium (Ca:K) ratio is 3:1 or better, no additional calcium is needed.\u00a0 If <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>EITHER<\/strong><\/span> of these requirements is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">not<\/span><\/strong> met, then it is recommended to apply 1000 lbs\/A of gypsum or landplaster at early bloom.\u00a0 Also remember, any peanuts grown for seed should automatically receive this gypsum application regardless of soil test calcium levels.<\/p>\n<p>Visit us on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorthCoAg\/\">UGA Extension Worth County Ag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/911293135571568\/videos\/2264981733815346\/?t=63\">Click here<\/a> to see a short, educational video by UGA Extension-Irwin County on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/911293135571568\/videos\/2264981733815346\/?t=63\">Peanut Pegging Zone Test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the Worth County Extension Office at 229-776-8216.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is a good time for peanut growers to pull pegging zone soil samples.\u00a0 This test is to check the calcium levels at a 3-inch depth, where the peanut pegs and pods will be developing.\u00a0 On our runner varieties, if there is at least 500 lbs\/A of soil test calcium AND if the calcium to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agronomics","category-fertility","category-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/worthag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}