| Date |
Comments |
Submitted By |
| September 12, 2008 |
Well we have certainly dried off since Faye came through. We need some rain now to help finish out some peanuts maturity wise and help soften up the soil to make digging easier. We have already harvested some peanuts already but it will be another 10 days before harvest really gets going strong. |
Kris Balkcom
Program Specialist |
| August 15, 2008 |
The rain the first of the week was certainly a blessing. I have heard reports anywhere from 1-6 inches. That was the best rain that we have had all season covering the entire peanut belt with a significant amount of water to go with it. No one every passes up a rain in August. There were some dry areas before the rain but the peanuts are responding well to the water and setting another crop. Hopefully we will continue to receive some frequent beneficial showers from here on to harvest. The farmer certainly has a lot riding on this crop. We are getting to the time of year when white mold and CBR will began to show up. Insect pressure has been minimal with the exception of some isolated cases. However now is also the time for farmers to be on the look out for army
worms and other insects with corn harvest starting.
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Kris Balkcom
Program Specialist - Auburn University |
| June 20, 2008 |
Scattered rains last week were a blessing to many farmers. This past week the farmers have been battling the worms. There are a number of fields scattered across the belt with corn ear worms and tobacco budworms feeding on the foliage of the smallest peanuts. Karate or Mustang Max is fine for corn ear worms but you need Tracer or Lannate for the Tobacco budworms. Most growers have applied paraquat and butoxone across their peanuts and began their first fungicide spray. The rain chance is good for this weekend, hopefully everyone will get a shower.
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Kris Balkcom
Program Specialist - Auburn University |
| May 07, 2008 |
Planting is under way for several producers as we speak. The radio and the road have been quiet busy lately. The soil temperature in averaging in the low 60's this past week with those cool nights. We recommend 65 degrees for the average soil temp to plant peanuts. However it is the first of May and we have got more moisture than previous years therefore they are ready to start sooner this year. Maybe we have seen the last of those colder night time temps. Everyone is of course starting out with the more resistant TSW varieties. So hopefully we can dodge or with stand
the pressure from TSW.
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Kris Balkcom
Program Specialist - Auburn University |
| August 22, 2007 |
The crop in West Alabama has great potential if they can continue to receive some more timely showers to fully mature the crop. The peanut crop for the remainder of the state of Alabama is in direr need of a change in the weather pattern. Unfortunately time is not on our side since we are in the third week of August. The past two weeks of 100 degree temperatures and lack of significant rainfall has had a drastic effect on the crops fruit set. The 2007 peanut season has been much like 2006 season, dry with the exception of the rainfall that we received during the months of August and September last year to make the crop. Everyone should be aware of the increase in insect pressure due to the fact that corn is being harvested and the insects shift to another crop. Growers have been taking precautions for burrowing bugs since they attack the pods as a source for moisture during dry weather greatly reducing the crops value. |
Kris Balkcom
Program Specialist, Auburn University |
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