peanut rx

Variety selection, disease management and harvest timing are critical to Georgia’s peanut farmers ⋅ BY MARIA M. LAMEIRAS ⋅ From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit...

Avoid the ‘perfect storm’ situation for a leaf spot control failure.  ⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅ Anticipating what might happen with disease pressure in your fields and providing research-based strategies to mitigate that yield destroyer are what plant pathologists do, says...

When University of Georgia peanut pathologist Bob Kemerait does something, he does it wholeheartedly. A passionate advocate for producers near his academic home at the University of Georgia Tifton campus and around the world, Kemerait describes himself as “a field...

Rotation, Peanut Rx and fungicides are a good way to start planning for disease in 2022. Hosted by Alabama Cooperative Extension, University of Florida/ Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences Extension and the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the tri-state...

With the crop moving beyond seedling stage, it is time to think about common fungal pathogens. Preseason decisions, such as varietal selection and in-furrow applications, have been made, and peanuts are in the ground starting to grow. Decisions for management...

The first workday after the time changed back to daylight savings, my husband came home and plopped down into his easy chair without saying a word. This was not his standard behavior. Usually, he comes in, greets me, maybe we...

Peanut growers have a new defense against white mold with Excalia fungicide from Valent U.S.A. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted federal registration of Excalia, which offers white mold control even under heavy pressure, to help growers prevent the...

In 2018, losses to tomato spotted wilt across the peanut production region of the southeastern United States increased slightly from estimated losses from 2017. Losses associated with spotted wilt were approximately 3 percent in 2017 and 3.5 percent in...