Japanese Peanut Buyers tour Ford Farms

Japanese Peanut buyers toured the Tri-state area the last week of September.  They toured peanut processing facilities in Donalsonville, Georgia, a peanut buying point near Dothan, Alabama and, in between, stopped at Larry Ford’s Farm in Jackson County to see...

Florida Peanut Disease Update September 2012

By: Nicholas S. Dufault, Extension Plant Pathologist, University of Florida This year rainfall returned to most of Florida’s peanut production areas through afternoon showers and tropical systems Debra and Isaac. The increase in moisture created a high disease...

Washington County Update – Wet Fields!

There is a growing anxiety about the corn harvest with its high moisture content and lack of available storage. Field conditions are wet making it hard for equipment to cross fields. Cotton fields need to dry out or disease pressure will rise. Diseases such as white...

2012 Peanuts: It Is a White Mold Year

Back in the early spring, University of Georgia Extension Plant Pathologist Bob Kemerait predicted that conditions were going to be right for white mold development in peanuts during the 2012 season.  He based this on the very warm temperatures common throughout the...

APHIDS and PEANUTS

On July 16, I was called to a peanut field in Santa Rosa County. There I met with producer Steven Godwin, and CPS agronomist Greg Esco, to examine an unknown cluster of aphids found in the field they were scouting for lesser cornstalk borer. The scientific jury is...

Washington County: Crop Conditions Good

Summer rains are coming on a regular basis and with sufficient quantity. Corn, cotton, soybeans and peanuts are all looking very good, better than they have in the past three years. Pressure from Army Worms is still a problem in fertilized hay fields. Scouting is...