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Successful production of quality peanuts requires growers to plan an effective production and marketing program and to implement that program on a timely basis during the season. Each cultural practice and marketing decision must be effectively integrated into the total farm management plan to produce optimum profits from the whole farm.
Management Summaries
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Early detection and identification of diseases are critical in developing effective and low cost approaches for control. Thorough scouting can identify disease problems when they are easiest to control. Accurate identification of diseases is necessary for selection of the most appropriate management tactics and crop protection products. Click on a link below to see information on the disease or topic:
Management Summaries
Information Sheets
Peanut growers had a pretty good year from an insect problem point of view in 2009. To help avoid problems this year, there are many things that you can do. Do not treat on a schedule or because a neighbor is spraying. Scout fields and treat only as needed. Remove weeds and brush that serve as wild hosts for spider mites from around fields in fall or early spring. Click on the links below for more information about insect and mite pests and pest management:
Management Summaries
Information Sheets
Effective weed management is essential for profitable peanut production. Peanuts are not very competitive with weeds and thus require higher levels of weed control than most other agronomic crops to avoid yield losses. Weeds may also decrease digging efficiency, so effective late-season weed control can minimize losses during harvest. A weed management program in peanuts consists of good weed control in rotational crops; cultivation, if needed; establishment of a satisfactory stand and growing a competitive crop; and proper selection and use of herbicides. Click on the links below for more information:
Management Summaries
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Yield and quality are two major factors that influence variety selection. Growers with significant disease history may need to choose a variety with disease tolerance or resistance. Planting at least three varieties with different maturity dates permits efficient use of limited harvesting and curing equipment. Planting varieties with different genetic pedigrees reduces the risk of crop failure because of adverse weather or unexpected disease epidemics. More information is available in the following information sheets:
Information Sheets
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I have 19 grower surveys but they represent only 4 or 5 counties. If I could get 2 or 3 from your county that would give us something to work with. It is important that they all come from the same year (2011.) I’m not looking for perfection in these. Everyone’s memory is going away at this point…I’ll take an estimate. I will take what I can get but need at least one from each county…but would like 3.
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Peanut Grower Survey - Please have growers fill out and return to David Jordan by April 15th to be entered into a raffle!
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All of the extension meetings that are currently being planned by David Jordan, Barbara Shew and Rick Brandenburg for NC peanut producing counties.
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Attached are the rules for the state peanut production contest (also at the county level.) Please use these and have growers fill out the survey. Bob needs your champion (yield per acre, acres and points) at least a week before your production meeting.
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Peanut Notes . . .
To view all North Carolina peanut notes click
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Mar 05, 2013
Warrant Letter
- David Jordan
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Feb 21, 2013
5000 pound club
- David Jordan
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To view all Virgina peanut notes click
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Jan 31, 2012
Thrips Control
- Maria Balota
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Decision Aids . . .
 The new risk management decision aid can help you assess risks of developing one or more disease, arthropod, or nematode problem in your peanut crop. Select a scenario, make changes to reflect your own crop rotation schedule, pest history, soil type, and management practices, and see how the risk for each of 12 pests changes. How will selecting a different cultivar or changing planting date affect these risks? Find out….http://www.peanut.ncsu.edu/riskmgmt
 HADSS, the Herbicide Application Decision Support System for field crops, can help you evaluate postemergence weed control tactics. This program estimates yield loss if no herbicide is applied, determines expected level of control for each treatment, estimates expected net return from each treatment, and provides important warnings and herbicide label restrictions.http://www.webhadss.ncsu.edu/
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The following comprehensive manuals provide information on peanut crop maintenance as well as pest management.
 Yearly publication prepared by Extension personnel at Virginia Tech for the production of peanut in Virginia. Topics include: agronomic recommendations and procedures; weed, insect, and disease control; irrigation; sprayer information; and production costs.
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 The North Carolina Agricultural Chemicals Manual provides Extension personnel, researchers, and other professional agricultural workers, dealers, applicators, distributors, formulators, and manufacturers with the most up-to-date information available on the selection, application, and safe and proper use of agricultural chemicals.
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/images/2013_peanutinformation_nc.jpg "2013_peanutinformation_nc.jpg") Yearly Extension publication prepared by NCSU for the production of peanut in North Carolina. Chapters include: Virginia-Type Peanuts: Situation and Outlook, Peanut Seed, Peanut Production Practices, Weed Management in Peanuts, Peanut Insect and Mite Management, and Peanut Disease Management, Planting, Harvesting, and Curing Peanuts, and Guidlines and Survey Results from the North Carolina Peanut Production Contest.
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/images/sc_peanut_manual_cover.jpg "SC_Peanut_Manual_Cover.jpg") Peanut is a relatively high-input, high management row crop. But profit is not determined by spending more money or adding one more product to the spray tank that "might help." It is about doing the fundamentals on time and getting the most out of every dollar invested.
This is a guide for making timely peanut management decisions. The intention is to lay out a step-by-step "game plan" for peanut production under South Carolina conditions, and to provide growers, county agents, private consultants, and industry representatives with a reference that will answer most practical questions about peanut production.
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 This scouting manual will help growers identify peanut pests and determine whether the number of pests is likely to decrease yield and cause profit losses greater than the cost of treatment.
Click here to download file in pdf format.
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/images/va_pest_management_2011.jpg "VA_Pest_Management_2011.jpg") The Virginia Cooperative Extension Pest Management Guide - 2011 Field Crops provides Extension personnel, researchers, and other professional agricultural workers, dealers, applicators, distributors, formulators, and manufacturers with the most up-to-date information available on the selection, application, and safe and proper use of agricultural chemicals.
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/images/2012 sc pest mangagement hanbook.jpg "2012 sc pest mangagement hanbook.jpg") The Pest Management Handbook is a set of recommendations developed by Clemson University Extension pest management specialists and university researchers for South Carolina growers. These recommendations were derived from various sources of information available to these contributors at times prior to publishing this handbook and represent their current views on managing field crop pests based on pesticide labels, their own research or experience, and/or a number of other sources.
The 2012 Pest Management Handbook is available here. The chapters pertaining to pest control in peanut are here.
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