Assessment of Fungicide Program Efficacy Using On-Farm, Large Plot and Small Plot Trials in North Florida

摘要

Peanut production has become an important commodity crop for Hamilton County and the surrounding counties over the past ten years. In North Florida, throughout the Suwannee River Valley, peanut producers generated approximately $56,482,000 from the 70,603 acres of peanuts produced in 2015. Each year these peanut producers are faced with the difficult task of determining the best fungicide spray program for disease management to use in peanuts. To assist peanut producers a partnership was formed between a University of Florida Extension Agent, a University of Florida Peanut Specialist and a cooperating peanut farmer. This partnership has created a peanut program centered on a peanut on-farm trial.