By Eddie McGriff
Extension Coordinator
Coffee County, Ga.
Farmers and scouts need to be on-guard for velvetbean caterpillars as they generally strike peanut and soybean fields in the first few weeks of August. ...
Afternoon showers and thunderstorms helped some Alabama crops last week, but even with the arrival of rainfall high temperatures were taking a toll. ...
By Rosalie Marion Bliss
United States Department of Agriculture
Fat free peanut flour, whole peanuts and peanut oil all may have cardio-protective properties, results from a new animal study suggest. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists presented the findings at the Institute of Food Technologists 2008 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La....
The early-planted corn crop in South Carolina is not going to be much to write home about....
Crop conditions continue to vary widely across the lower Southeast and that is particularly true for Alabama where some corn was reported to be in the best shape in recent years, while other fields bordered on disaster. ...
The Virginia corn crop has reached the stage where it’s suffering badly from dry weather. ...
Corn harvest got under way in Alabama during the week ending July 20, with other producers side-dressing cotton, completing herbicide, insecticide and PGR applications to cotton, making fungicide and herbicide applications to peanuts, and treating some soybean fields with fungicides to battle disease....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nighttime is the right time…for spraying peanuts? ...
South Carolina soybeans may have been saved by rainfall this past week, but the crop isn’t out of the woods yet as more moisture will be needed before maturity. ...
It varied drastically, but recent rainfall in Alabama might have saved the corn crop in some counties, while other areas got little relief....
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