Extending Knowledge
Good Day Everyone, The peanut planting season is slowly coming to a close. The May 20th crop progress report indicated we were somewhere around 63% planted. I think we will be 80-85% planted by the end of this week. For the most part, emergence has been okay with only a few isolated germination problems with a … Read more
Valor SX (flumioxazin) continues to be our most effective soil applied herbicide for control of glyphosate- and ALS-resistant Palmer amaranth in peanuts. According to the label, Valor SX should be applied immediately after planting but no later than 2 days after planting. Of course, not everything goes to plan. Some precautions to note: If the … Read more
We have received some much needed rain across much of the peanut growing area in the state. The moisture should give a chance to plant a large portion of our acreage over the next two weeks. With this in mind, I wanted to make a few quick comments/reminders of things related to planting: For the … Read more
The projected planted acres for SC as indicated by reports from our growers came in late last week. If South Carolina growers plant all of the acres suggested by the March 30, 2012 report, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), we will set another planting record of 105,000 acres. This is a 36% increase … Read more