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Herbicides and Horsenettle Peanut Notes No. 120 2024

We do not have good options for horsenettle and other perennial weeds. Cadre plus 2,4-DB is about as good as we have. Its value is not allowing fruiting structures to form. If you do not want to…

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Chlorpyrifos Use in Peanuts Peanut Notes No. 119 2024

Question:Had someone from a company reach out to me asking about using chlorpyrifos on peanuts in VA. Said he got some new in his warehouse and its labeled for use in peanuts but he wanted to make…

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Grass Control With Cadre and Clethodim Peanut Notes No. 118 2024

Question:How good is Cadre on Texas panicum. 4-12” size clumps.Jordan:It will suppress it but not kill it. Clethodim at the highest rate is best. I would make an application of Clethodim alone and…

Peanut Irrigation notes, a screenshot from the linked publication.

Irrigation Timing Peanut Notes No. 117 2024

About 20% of peanut acreage in NC is irrigated. We have information in 2024 Peanut Information relative to irrigation. Virginia Tech has a really good chapter on peanut irrigation. Here are two…

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Residual Herbicides Peanut Notes No. 116 2024

Question:Do you usually recommend a postemergence application of Dual for residual grass control?Jordan:In some fields that is a good idea, but I mostly think about Palmer amaranth and eclipta. But…

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Burrower Bug Review Article Peanut Notes No. 115 2024

An excellent review of the current understanding of burrower bug can be found at this link. Our tools are currently limited to deep tillage in the form of moldboard plow. That is alarming as we move…

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Leaf Spot Disease and Chemical Burn Peanut Notes No. 114 2023

Question:How can you tell difference between burn and early leafspot? Looks the same to me.Jordan:I don’t recall ever seeing leaf spot in the canopy until mid August. Almost always starting in the…

Leaf Scorch on peanut plants.

Leaf Scorch Peanut Notes No. 113 2024

I started an email discussion with Dan Anco, peanut pathologist at Clemson, about leaf scorch. Here is the image we discussed along with the discussion. Anco:Symptoms can overlap with leaf scorch and…

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PPO Herbicide Injury Peanut Notes No. 112 2024

Question:I wrote down you had said Cobra can affect yield negatively if sprayed in stressed peanuts. Is the same true with Blazer? We need to spray some pigweed.Jordan:My impression is that Cobra can…

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High Rate of Ammonium Sulfate Applied to Peanuts Peanut Notes 111 2024

Question:Farmer put 800 lbs of ammonium sulfate on peanuts by mistake. Wanted 250 lbs but cart door was opened wide. Question is, are peanuts going to die? I say we have put that much before for…