Maintaining Momentum: Can the record-breaking yields of '08 be continued in '09?

摘要

U.S. peanut growers rewrote the record books in 2008, with the total crop topping five billion pounds and average yields reaching an unprecedented 3,416 pounds per acre. The challenge for 2009: maintain momentum. Consultants and Extension specialistsare looking closely at management practices that will bring growers maximum yields on each peanut acre. Georgia consultant Michael Parker knows a thing or two about maximum yields. Last year, he consulted on a 47-acre field farmed by Don and Chris Simmons in Mitchell County that yielded more than 7,000 pounds per acre. Parker says two key tools helped them achieve the huge yields: Georgia-06G and Provost fungicide.