Panhandle Peanut Butter Drive a Success

3539 Jars of peanut Butter collected for Donation to Food pantries in the Florida Panhandle County Extension Offices in 15 Northwest Florida Counties took part in the “Take a bite out of HUNGER”  Peanut Butter Food Drive Campaign that concluded with Farm...

Time to Sample for Nematodes in Agronomic Crops

Now is the time to sample peanut and cotton fields for nematodes in preparation for next year’s crop, as nematode populations are at some of their highest populations during harvest time.  Plenty of plant roots are still available for the nematodes to feed upon...

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...