by external | Aug 12, 2022
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....
by Doug Mayo | Jun 10, 2022
Last week we shared the Noble Foundation’s 1/128 sprayer calibration video for standard boom sprayers. This week’s featured video is a Do-It-Yourself Video produced by the Noble Foundation for calibrating a boomless sprayer. Boomless sprayers have become...
by Kacey Aukema | Jun 3, 2022
I recently met with a home gardener who brought in tomato plants showing strange symptoms on the leaves. Together we puzzled over the odd leaf-curling symptoms that were affecting their tomato beds, but not other areas of the garden. Upon further investigation it was...
by Pratap Devkota | May 13, 2022
Pratap Devkota, Weed Scientist, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center Enlist crop technology (2,4-D-tolerant) allows for the application of 2,4-D choline herbicide products on Enlist Cotton, Enlist Corn, and Enlist E3 Soybean. The newer 2,4-D choline...
by Nicholas Dufault | Apr 1, 2022
Nicholas Dufault UF/IFAS Department of Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL, and Zane Grabau and Chang (Diana) Liu, UF/IFAS Department of Entomology and Nematology, Gainesville, FL As we head into the 2022 peanut season, many farmers are thinking about how to cut...
by Evan Anderson | Sep 24, 2021
Evan Anderson, UF/IFAS Extension Walton County, Horticulture Agent Pests come in many forms, from tiny sucking mites to weeds that tower ten feet tall. Chances are, whatever the pest is, there’s a pesticide to fight it. Pesticides may tend to be the first solutions we...
