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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Control Using Natural Enemies
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend North Carolina State’s Tomato Field Day, at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River, NC. Every summer crowds flock...
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Make it Pay When You Spray Your Pastures
Picture taken late last summer of a Washington County field that was sprayed one time, early last summer. Note the tremendous difference between sprayed and un-sprayed areas. Based on increased forage...
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Calibrating Your Boomless Pesticide Sprayer
Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent, and Kalyn Waters, Holmes County Agricultural Agent Calibrating a a wide-swath boomless spray nozzle, requires different calculations than are normally used for...
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How Hot and Dry Conditions Affect Herbicide Performance
A sprayer applying herbicide on a hot, dry day in the Florida Panhandle. Credit: Pratap Devkota, UF/IFAS For the past several weeks, the Florida Panhandle has experienced hot and dry weather...
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Early Season 2019 Peanut Disease Observations
The peanut field conditions have gone from hot and dry in early June to a mix of wet and dry at the end of the month across much of Florida’s peanut production area (Figure 1). The crop was...
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Grasshoppers Could Be a Problem This Season
Grasshopper nymphs on a peanut plant. Photo credit: Ethan Carter – Jennifer Bearden, UF/IFAS Okaloosa Extension Ag Agent, and Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent The warm, dry weather this spring is...
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Early Season Issues: Aspergillus and Rhizoctonia Crown Rots in Peanuts
There are many environmental, chemical, and biological factors that can affect a peanut stand; fungal diseases being one of them. Recently, Aspergillus species have been the focus of fungal problems on...
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Consider Insecticide Resistance When Controlling Horn Flies on Cattle
A Washington County heifer showing a population of horn flies significant enough to warrant treatment. Photo Credit: Mark Mauldin – Horn fly. Photo credit: J. F. Butler, University of Florida Horn...
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Clearwing Moth – Insect Pest of Peaches and Olives
There are many species of clearwing moths that affect various fruit and ornamental trees. The most common species in the southeast is the peachtree borer. However, another species of clearwing moth...
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UF/IFAS Extension Suwannee Valley Watermelon Crop Update #1
UF/IFAS Researchers conducted a trial at the Suwannee Valley Research and Education Center to compare the standard fungicide spray program for watermelon to one with additional fungicides targeting...
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What Liquid Nematicide Should You Use in Horticulture Crop Production?
In recent years, new liquid, non-fumigant nematicides (products that move through the soil as a liquid rather than a gas) have become available. With that increase, I have received more questions about...
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Early Herbicide Applications Critical for Perennial Peanut Pastures
Perennial peanut production is on the rise throughout the Panhandle. In Calhoun County alone, we’ve ascended from a small specialty industry, with a farm here and there growing the legume, to around...
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Springtime Means Cutworms – Scout Corn and Soybean Fields
Florida has several species of cutworms that can be problematic year to year in cropping systems, especially corn and soybeans. Larvae are capable of overwintering and surviving the winter here, which...
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Controlling Invasive Cogongrass
Over the last decade or so, the Panhandle has been overrun, and I don’t just mean by the summer beach traffic. Rather, by an aggressive, exotic perennial grass that quickly displaces all native...
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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...
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Early Season Pest Update for Cotton and Peanut
We are now a few weeks into the cotton and peanut season, with some farmers having already planted their crops. Others are currently in the process of planting, and some are yet to begin behind small...
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Private Applicator/Core Pesticide Applicator Exam Prep & CEUs – December 13
If you need to take the exam to secure a restricted use pesticide applicator license, or just need CEUs for license renewal, make plans to attend the Private Applicator/Core Pesticide Applicator...
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2024 Citrus Health Forum – February 22
Commercial citrus growers across the Florida Panhandle and Southern Georgia are invited to attend the 2024 Citrus Health Forum. This meeting will be held at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and...
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2024 Tri-State Fruit & Vegetable Conference Highlights & Presentation Links
The 2024 Tri-State Fruit & Vegetable Annual Conference was held on Wednesday, January 31. There were 6 educational presentations and a tradeshow with 14 booths with representatives who provide...
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2024 Citrus Health Forum Recap & Presentation Links
The 2024 Citrus Health Forum was held on February 22, at the North Florida Research & Education Center (NFREC) in Quincy, Florida. There were six educational presentations and a tradeshow with 10...
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