Final Peanut Management Decisions and Harvest

Final Peanut Management Decisions and Harvest

Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop IPM Agent and Mark Mauldin, Washington County Agriculture Agent     September is here, and that means peanut harvest is just around the corner. Equipment is starting to move down the roadways, maturity samples are being...
Petition to Revoke use of Thimet and Orthene in Peanuts

Petition to Revoke use of Thimet and Orthene in Peanuts

  Dr. Mark Abney, UGA Peanut Entomologist An NGO group is currently petitioning the US EPA to revoke all food use tolerances for the organophosphate class of chemistry. In peanut this means phorate (Thimet) and acephate (Orthene). This is not a good situation....