Depending on weather and field conditions in May, there can be a wide range of peanut sizes and ages moving into June and July. Peanuts in the V-C region most likely will be four to six weeks old in...
Insects and mites can cause severe economic loss, but not every field will be infested with damaging populations every year. Pest species also vary from year to year and field to field within a year.
Understanding the risk factors that...
The relationship between peanut yield and insect management is complicated.
• By Amanda Huber •
University of Georgia Extension entomologist Mark Abney offers four keys to successful insect management in 2018.
⇒ Monitor pest populations regularly.
Understanding the risk factors that contribute to pest outbreaks...
Adequate stands can mean the difference between great yields and average yields. Last year, seed quality and weather played a role in skippy stands resulting in greater tomato spotted wilt virus and decreased yield in some fields. Based on...
Insect populations fluctuate greatly with temperature and moisture.
Year 2016 was an interesting one that started with a very wet spring followed by a drought starting in June with a dramatic reduction in precipitation that lasted five months. Looking at...
Drought leaves producers facing difficult decisions on dryland fields.
Weather conditions deteriorated during the latter part of the summer in Georgia and little rainfall was recorded at critical stages of the growing season. Scott Monfort, University of Georgia Extension peanut...
Planting conditions support the thought that the crop will be slightly less than last year.
By Amanda Huber
Early reports of the 2016 crop are good, but a lack of uniform emergence caused by cooler weather conditions will likely cause problems...
University of Florida researchers study the resistance of tobacco thrips to neonicotinoid seed treatments; additional insecticide applications may be needed.
By Danielle Sprague and Joe Funderburk, North Florida REC, University of Florida, IFAS
Tobacco thrips, Frankliniella fusca, are seedling pests of...
While work continues on developing economic thresholds for insect pests, scouting can pay dividends now.
University of Georgia entomologist Mark Abney is searching for ways to monitor insects responsible for destroying peanut crops, a first step in developing economic thresholds...
Be sure moisture can’t get back into stored peanuts and create conditions for mold growth.
Editor’s Note: Splits and sprouting are two words no producer wants to hear in relation to a peanut crop. But according to Maria Balota, associate...
By Mark Abney, University of Georgia Extension Entomologist
Insect and mite pressure in peanut can vary dramatically from year to year and even from field to field within a year. Each growing season brings with it new challenges; growers in...
More scouting of fields is needed for effective insect management.
By Amanda Huber
With insect management in peanuts, there are a lot of “if, then” contingencies. If it is hot and dry, then expect to see more lesser cornstalk borer. If...
Use information on pesticide labels to rotate herbicide ‘families.’
Herbicides are grouped according to family, such as triazines, and by the target site of action or mechanism of action, such as acetolactate synthase or ALS inhibitors. Herbicides within a family...
Consider resistance-management options with these pesticide products.
Pesticide options for 2015 include a new fungicide offering from Syngenta and an insecticide/nematicide combination product from Bayer CropScience. Included in this article is information about these new products and a few others...
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