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Yu-Chien Tseng, Brendan Zurweller and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department
Growers typically use indirect methods to sense crop stress, such as soil moisture sensors to predict crop drought stress or models to predict disease risk. Directly monitoring the stress levels experienced by the crop would give an immediate snapshot of crop condition, …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/04/13/developing-a-stress-breathalyzer-for-peanuts/
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Farmers and ranchers must manage traditional business practices to be successful, but they also deal with the many challenges of ever changing weather. Rain, wind, and temperature are important and obvious aspects of weather that producers track on a daily basis, but there are other, not so obvious weather features that affect operational management as …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/04/06/atmospheric-temperature-inversions-why-are-they-important-to-farmers/
Peanut seed is likely on its way to many buying point locations this week and next week, as peanut planting will begin soon in the Florida Panhandle. Planting is already underway in Levy County and surrounding areas, where soil temperatures are warming quickly despite a cool day here and there.
On Wednesday, April 4, average …
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Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered new dicamba herbicide product formulations for making applications to dicamba tolerant cotton and soybean crops. As a result, many states were overwhelmed with drift complaints regarding sensitive crops. This led to the 2018 EPA announcement requiring that anyone who wishes to apply dicamba to dicamba tolerant …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/04/06/still-need-the-mandatory-dicamba-resistant-crop-training/
On March 29, USDA released their Prospective Plantings report, which in my opinion, gets us much closer to what will eventually be the acres planted in 2018. The 13½ million acre neighborhood, or even higher, is what has been expected by many observers, and that’s what this report said.
So, we now have …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/04/06/cotton-marketing-news-ok-now-this-is-the-number/
Variety selection is a key decision for cotton producers each year. Variety performance is heavily dependent on environmental conditions and geography. Therefore, it is important for growers to select varieties based on multi-year research data from a similar location, as well as local field experience.
Extension agents and faculty at the UF/IFAS West Florida …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/03/23/2017-uf-ifas-cotton-variety-trial-results/
Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent, and Zane Grabau, UF/IFAS Nematologist
Newly registered for Florida, AgLogic 15GG (gypsum formulation) is a granular nematicide available for use in Florida cotton and peanut. The active ingredient in this product is aldicarb, which you may remember was the active ingredient in Temik.
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Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/03/16/permit-required-for-aglogic-nematocide-use-in-cotton-and-peanuts/
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This year’s Panhandle Row Crop Short Course took place on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Extension Specialists from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama spoke to attendees providing production recommendations and various management tips for row crops farmers. Continuing education units (CEUs) were offered at the event for those with a restricted use pesticide license (Florida, Georgia and Alabama), as …
Permanent link to this article: http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/2018/03/09/highlights-presentations-from-the-2018-panhandle-row-crop-short-course/
