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Owen Taylor,
Editor (601-992-9488)
Larry Stalcup,
Southwest Editor (806-356-6098)
Peanuts are pulling
themselves together on a wider basis in both the South and West
this week. pegging on
a wider basis in the South and the West this week.
The crop is pegging
more widely in the Southeast, while rains continue push along
the crop in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
Worms are being treated
in scattered areas in the Southeast. In pockets, they’re heavy, but
no widescale outbreaks are being reported. Lesser cornstalk borers
have been reported in dry areas.
Rainfall patterns have
varied in the South. Parts of the Midsouth continue
to receive rain. Much of the region measured an inch or more in the
last week. Areas in the lower Southeast received good amounts since
our last report. But other parts of the region have missed recent
showers and are getting dry.
Substantial rainfall
continues to develop in Oklahoma and Texas, and people are
closely watching
for Rhizoctonia. Residual herbicides are holding back most weeds,
our contacts this week noted. One Texas Extension agent said that
due to the state’s prolonged drought that hardly any cotton plant
growth regulator had been applied in his county in the last 2 years.
“With all the rain in the last 6 weeks, we’re having to reeducate
ourselves about how to use them,” he joked.
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CROP REPORTS
Trey Bullock, Bullock's
Ag Consulting, Hattiesburg, Mississippi: "Our oldest peanuts are
right around 50 days and are starting to peg real good. Gypsum is
going out. Those planted 30 days ago are blooming on time. Peanuts
planted 50 days ago took 38 to 40 days to bloom, so our earliest and
latest aren’t that far apart now. We’re seeing a few tobacco
budworms and some yellow striped armyworms around but nothing we’re
concerned about. All of our herbicides worked extremely well.”
Jack Royal, Royal’s
Agricultural Consulting Co., Inc., Leary, Georgia: “Peanuts range
from planted on June 2 to some just starting to peg. If we don’t get
a lot of rainfall soon, we’ll start irrigating to prompt more fruit
initiation.”
Todd Baughman, Oklahoma
State University Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Program
Support Leader, Peanuts, Ardmore: “As long as we can keep this
pattern of rainfall going, we’re going to be in good shape. Our
biggest concern tends to be staying up on irrigation, and the rain
is really helping. We’re getting a few reports of grasshoppers. But
that shouldn’t be much of a concern for peanuts. They can handle
foliage damage more than other crops.”
Ayanava “Doctor A”
Majumdar, Extension Peanut Entomologist, Auburn University: “Ron
Smith (Extension Entomologist) has indicated higher-than-normal
tobacco budworm (TBW) activity in southeast Alabama. Peanut
producers should watch for mixed populations of corn earworm (CEW)
and TBW in July and thereafter. CEW moth activity typically peaks in
late July in peanut fields, depending on weather conditions.
“Control measures
should be selected carefully after correct identification of TBW,
since they are harder to kill with pyrethroids. You’ll need a good
magnifying lens to look at the hair patterns on these caterpillars
to separate them. Stop using insecticides once populations subside
in peanuts. Overuse of pyrethroids early as maintenance sprays could
result in spider mite outbreaks. If the weather remains hot and dry
in peanut areas, stay alert for lesser cornstalk borers and burrower
bugs.”
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Brandon Phillips,
Phillips Ag Services, LLC, Douglas, Georgia: “We’re at the end of a
tobacco budworm (TBW) flight and sprayed a handful of fields and
also have a handful of fields that we now wish we had sprayed. At
least in those cases where we didn’t treat, the soil has plenty of
moisture and peanuts should recover pretty good. We’re also starting
to pick up a few threecornered alfalfa hoppers. Fungicides and
Cadre are going out. We’re not seeing much right now in terms of
lessers. All of our land plaster has gone out.”
Ryan Roberts, Ryan
Roberts Crop Consulting, Farwell, Texas/Southwestern Panhandle:
“Peanuts are looking really good. We’re seeing several blooms and
there is no disease pressure whatsoever. Our residual herbicides are
working well. What weeds we’re not able to get are requiring hoe
hands.
“We’re trying to
maintain good soil moisture in the upper 6 inches. This keeps the
environment damp to maintain cooler temperatures so pegs can
penetrate the sandy soil. Then we’ll be on the watch for any disease
pressure, mainly Rhizoctonia and peg rot. It’s way too early to have
much concern about leaf spot.”
Ron Smith, Alabama
Extension Entomologist: "We have a tobacco budworm (TBW) flight that
is into its fourth or fifth week, with no dip in numbers. We’ve had
tobacco out for 6 to 8 years to monitor TBW activity and have really
had to search in the past to find them. But this year we already had
pretty good size worms on those plants by Memorial Day week. They’re
still present and eggs are still being laid.”
Kris Balkcom, Research
Associate, Wiregrass Research and Extension Center, Headland,
Alabama: “Rains have been light and really spotty, with localized
heavy showers popping up in the heat of the day. With plenty of
sunshine and heat today (6/27), it’s not hard to tell who got
moisture recently and who didn’t. Growers are running gypsum and
putting out chlorothalonil. Peanuts are really taking off, although
we do have areas where they’re not growing much. Thrips subsided.
Fruiting is good in most of our earliest fields. No pest pressure
that I’m seeing or hearing about.”
Scott Monfort, Clemson
University Extension Peanut Specialist, Blackville, South Carolina:
“We could use a good, general rain. In small areas it’s been over a
month since any significant rain has fallen. Growers are trying to
clean up isolated weeds. We’ve had outbreaks of worms, not
widespread but we do have some big pockets in certain parts of the
state of tobacco budworms and beet armyworms. Some we’re treating,
while in certain cases we’re waiting to see if they cycle out. It’s
a little earlier than we’d want to have to worry about insects.
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“In dry areas a few
people say they’re already finding lesser cornstalk borers. The
first fungicide applications has gone out pretty widely and in some
cases the second has been made. In places, people have actually
gotten 2 to 3 inches of rain, but it’s crazy how isolated the
showers have been.”
Chris Locke, CSL
Consulting Inc., Sudan, Texas/Eastern New Mexico: “Our peanuts have
finally taken hold and started growing. Valencias are starting to
bloom and I expect to start seeing the Spanish bloom this week. I
don’t have anything pegging yet and we’re not seeing any disease
problems. We’ve had no fungicide treatments other than what we did
at planting. We are having to fight some weed outbreaks.”
Mark Abney, Extension
Entomologist, University of Georgia, Tifton: “Peanuts look good.
We’ve had showers over a lot of the state where we have peanuts.
This week I’ve ridden over a lot of our production area and all the crops – not just peanuts – looked good. Everything
seemed to have sufficient moisture.
“Caterpillars are
around. Folks are calling about them and some treatments have been
made. This is nothing widespread that has prompted everybody to
spray. Thrips are done. I heard some rumbling a couple of weeks ago
about spider mites but haven’t had calls lately, so maybe the rain
had an effect on them.”
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