2024 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

2024 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

As we approach the end of the 2024 peanut season, it’s time to reflect on some of the major disease challenges observed this year and how they may impact planning for 2025. Soilborne diseases like white mold (southern stem rot) and Cylindrocladium Black Rot (CBR) as...
Friday Feature:  Cattle Traceability Update from CattleTrace

Friday Feature: Cattle Traceability Update from CattleTrace

This week’s featured video was published by U.S. CattleTrace, which is a non-profit organization, formed by multiple state cattlmen’s associations and private industry, with the mission of securely maintaining and managing the data collected for disease...
Cotton Foliar Diseases Are Here: To Spray or Not To Spray?

Cotton Foliar Diseases Are Here: To Spray or Not To Spray?

Ethan Carter, UF/IFAS Regional Row Crop IPM Agent, Ian Small, UF/IFAS Crop Pathologist, and Bob Kemerait UGA Crop Pathologist For cotton growers, market prices have been extremely discouraging. With prices in the 65-70¢ range, it’s hard to justify intensive crop...
Be on the Lookout for White Mold in Peanuts

Be on the Lookout for White Mold in Peanuts

In scouting peanut fields over the last week, things mostly look good!  Fields have recovered from an excessively hot, dry June, plants have lapped, or nearly lapped the row middles, and weeds are mostly cleaned up.  However, of immediate concern is the emergence of...