2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

Nicholas Dufault, Barry Tillman, and Marco Goyzueta, UF/IFAS Extension Peanut Team With the 2025 peanut season concluding, it’s a good time to review this year’s plant disease issues and prepare for the next. Last year, the focus was on soilborne diseases like white...
Avoiding Pesticide Resistance

Avoiding Pesticide Resistance

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...
Panhandle Row Crop Update Video Presentations

Panhandle Row Crop Update Video Presentations

– Throughout the month of February, the Panhandle Ag Extension Team hosted a four-part virtual series geared towards cotton, peanut, corn, and soybean production, as well as precision agriculture. Extension specialists from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama provided...
Protecting Our Crop Protectants

Protecting Our Crop Protectants

Crop protection chemicals are vitally important to the agriculture industry and need to be protected. The “war on chemicals” is a true threat to the pesticides we rely on. That threat is challenging to manage except by advocating and telling the story of stewardship...