Planting

  • By Marco Torresan and Wesley Porter  Even though it’s still early in the season, most of the corn has been planted and many producers are switching over and starting to plant peanuts. I have seen many farmers starting to plant peanuts, so hopefully they have already made these changes. As you finish up corn it…

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  • By: Will Brown (UGA Extension, Appling County), Jennifer Miller (UGA Extension, Jeff Davis County), Sarah Beth Thompson, and Wesley Porter  While planting is going full speed there are many planters that have insecticide hoppers on the back of the row units, and it is critical that these systems are calibrated. Depending on which crop you…

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  • Below are some useful formulas to determine seeding rate, seed spacing, number of seeds per foot or assess emerged plant population based on stand counts in certain length of the row. Alternatively, the tables provided below can be used to determine seeding rate based on seed spacing or assess plant population based on number of…

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