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Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster. Her work is so important to growers that when a schedule conflict prevented her from presenting at the [&#8230;]

<figure id="attachment_1899" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1899" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="wp-image-1899 size-medium lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="300" height="200" data-src="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/files/2022/07/UteAlbrecht-300x200.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1899" class="wp-caption-text">Associate Professor Ute Albrecht (at right) advising a student in a citrus grove.</figcaption></figure>
Because of <a href="https://swfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/albrecht/">Ute Albrecht</a>, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster.
Her work is so important to growers that when a schedule conflict prevented her from presenting at the state’s leading citrus science conference, we set up a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAv9kJbqyw">special webinar</a> as soon as we could. I had the privilege of introducing her to the attending growers as a newly tenured associate professor.
You’ll see Albrecht’s name at the top of the promotion list that accompanies this message. Behind each of the 63 names are 63 stories of impact. This is a roster of achievers, people who have for years distinguished themselves in <a href="https://research.ifas.ufl.edu/">research</a>, <a href="https://cals.ufl.edu/">teaching</a> or <a href="https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/">Extension</a>, and in most cases a combination.
<figure id="attachment_1927" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1927" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/files/2022/08/Admin-Tenure-Promotion-Announcement-2022-03.pdf"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1927 lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="450" height="582" data-src="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/files/2022/08/Admin-Tenure-Promotion-Announcement-2022-03.jpg"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1927" class="wp-caption-text">Click on image for larger version.</figcaption></figure>
They earned promotion by building a national reputation. Their achievement packets, some of which run to 100 pages, hold testimonials from nationwide peers, records of presentations delivered across the country, and recognitions from their professional societies. Each packet is a story of publishing, submitting grant proposals, teaching and mentoring students and addressing Floridians’ challenges.
<h3>Supporting risk</h3>
We’re in the innovation business, and that comes with risk. Tenure and permanent status are among the best tools we have to enable and encourage risk. It says the university has your back when you pursue a science-backed idea that could disrupt current thinking and chart new paths.
Computer scientist Alan Kay said, “If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.” 90 is way too much, but I do expect that my team will fail nearly as often as it succeeds—and they will not be penalized for taking that risk.
In the private sector, you’d be fired for outcomes that hurt the bottom line. But in higher education, we only progress in expanding the frontier of knowledge through taking risks.
In some ways, I can be old-fashioned. I remember decades ago my department chair personally delivering my tenure letter. It conveyed importance, and I’ve asked our unit leaders to do it the way mine did.
At the same time, I’m grateful for modern communications technologies, like this electronic message and my <a href="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/">blog</a> where this tribute will also appear, to more publicly celebrate these milestones. I hope you’ll join me in congratulating our newly promoted colleagues and wishing them a long, productive and happy career at UF/IFAS.
<h3>Career-long impact</h3>
<figure id="attachment_1903" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1903" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1903 size-medium lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="240" height="300" data-src="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/files/2022/07/LauraAcosta-240x300.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1903" class="wp-caption-text">Senior Lecturer Laura Acosta</figcaption></figure>
Promotion is a check-in on a career-long path to impact. Now that regional Extension agent <a href="https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ethan-Carter-Ag_IPM-RSA.pdf">Ethan Carter</a> has been promoted to permanent status, I hope he’ll set his sights on future promotion by getting even better at identifying pests, recommending treatments and selecting seed varieties to keep Panhandle peanut farmers in business.
<figure id="attachment_1907" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1907" style="width: 225px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-1907 size-medium lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="225" height="300" data-src="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-vp/files/2022/07/Dufault-Carter-225x300.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1907" class="wp-caption-text">Regional Specialized Agent Ethan Carter (right) in the field.</figcaption></figure>
I hope a generation of students will blossom into dietitians under the tutelage of new senior lecturer <a href="https://fshn.ifas.ufl.edu/about/faculty-bio-pages/acosta/">Laura Acosta</a>. Along the way, she’ll add to accolades that include recognition as 2019 UF <a href="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2019/05/06/uf-ifas-cals-lecturer-named-uf-undergraduate-teacher-of-the-year/">undergraduate teacher of the year</a>.
Albrecht will continue on a path of building an international reputation and a record of mentoring to achieve the rank of full professor. Carter’s path to agent III will likely take him to many more peanut farms. Acosta now gets back to the work of developing new courses, designing interactive lessons and incorporating new teaching technologies as she builds a case for master lecturer status.
Congratulations to the class of 2022, to all those who preceded them, and to those working so hard to be on next year’s list.

Associate Professor Ute Albrecht (at right) advising a student in a citrus grove.
Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster.
Her work is so important to growers that when a schedule conflict prevented her from presenting at the state’s leading citrus science conference, we set up a special webinar as soon as we could. I had the privilege of introducing her to the attending growers as a newly tenured associate professor.
You’ll see Albrecht’s name at the top of the promotion list that accompanies this message. Behind each of the 63 names are 63 stories of impact. This is a roster of achievers, people who have for years distinguished themselves in research, teaching or Extension, and in most cases a combination.
Click on image for larger version.
They earned promotion by building a national reputation. Their achievement packets, some of which run to 100 pages, hold testimonials from nationwide peers, records of presentations delivered across the country, and recognitions from their professional societies. Each packet is a story of publishing, submitting grant proposals, teaching and mentoring students and addressing Floridians’ challenges.
Supporting risk
We’re in the innovation business, and that comes with risk. Tenure and permanent status are among the best tools we have to enable and encourage risk. It says the university has your back when you pursue a science-backed idea that could disrupt current thinking and chart new paths.
Computer scientist Alan Kay said, “If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.” 90 is way too much, but I do expect that my team will fail nearly as often as it succeeds—and they will not be penalized for taking that risk.
In the private sector, you’d be fired for outcomes that hurt the bottom line. But in higher education, we only progress in expanding the frontier of knowledge through taking risks.
In some ways, I can be old-fashioned. I remember decades ago my department chair personally delivering my tenure letter. It conveyed importance, and I’ve asked our unit leaders to do it the way mine did.
At the same time, I’m grateful for modern communications technologies, like this electronic message and my blog where this tribute will also appear, to more publicly celebrate these milestones. I hope you’ll join me in congratulating our newly promoted colleagues and wishing them a long, productive and happy career at UF/IFAS.
Career-long impact
Senior Lecturer Laura Acosta
Promotion is a check-in on a career-long path to impact. Now that regional Extension agent Ethan Carter has been promoted to permanent status, I hope he’ll set his sights on future promotion by getting even better at identifying pests, recommending treatments and selecting seed varieties to keep Panhandle peanut farmers in business.
Regional Specialized Agent Ethan Carter (right) in the field.
I hope a generation of students will blossom into dietitians under the tutelage of new senior lecturer Laura Acosta. Along the way, she’ll add to accolades that include recognition as 2019 UF undergraduate teacher of the year.
Albrecht will continue on a path of building an international reputation and a record of mentoring to achieve the rank of full professor. Carter’s path to agent III will likely take him to many more peanut farms. Acosta now gets back to the work of developing new courses, designing interactive lessons and incorporating new teaching technologies as she builds a case for master lecturer status.
Congratulations to the class of 2022, to all those who preceded them, and to those working so hard to be on next year’s list.

Because of Ute Albrecht, we know more about how to manage citrus greening than we did six years ago. She has worked nights, weekends, away from home and among citrus growers desperate for her to work faster. Her work is so important to growers that when a schedule conflict prevented her from presenting at the […]

Promoting the promoted

Working in labs and fields across Florida, a new generation of students will start earning a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the University of Florida – the first program of its kind in Florida and one of a few in the nation. The UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has received approval from the [&#8230;]

Working in labs and fields across Florida, a new generation of students will start earning a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the University of Florida – the first program of its kind in Florida and one of a few in the nation.
The UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has received approval from the Florida Board of Governors to start the program. Seven students are in the first cohort to begin in August.
Coursework will be available in person in Gainesville and online for students conducting their dissertation research off-campus at one of the UF/IFAS research and education centers throughout the state. The ability to conduct their entire program where their crop is grown and bred, from vanilla in Homestead to peanuts in the Panhandle, will be a great benefit to students.
“The new Ph.D. program is important because it will help attract the best plant-breeding students to UF/IFAS, and it will help us as faculty to provide them the best possible education,” said Vance Whitaker, a UF/IFAS associate professor of horticultural sciences and a strawberry breeder at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. “It will help create synergy among the plant-breeding students working across multiple departments.”
The students will do their coursework primarily in Gainesville and work on their dissertation research mostly in the location of their advisor’s lab.
“Students’ dissertation research will contribute substantially to breeding programs, because the success of varieties released by breeding programs is built on the science of breeding and genetics,” Whitaker said. “Plant breeding is vital to meeting the food, feed, fiber and environmental quality needs of our burgeoning worldwide population. Developing better crops will help us produce more food with fewer resources in a sustainable manner. Our students are passionate about those needs and goals, and that is why they want to become plant breeders.”
Elaine Turner, dean of UF/IFAS CALS, said top-flight graduate students will help scientists as they work toward solving issues such as hunger.
“Plant breeding is an important element in our collective efforts toward global food security,” Turner said. “Recruiting top graduate students and providing them an outstanding academic program that incorporates traditional and modern breeding techniques along with applications of artificial intelligence, will help us achieve our goal of eliminating hunger through sustainable food production.”
UF/IFAS CALS already has many faculty members whose research focuses on plant breeding, with academic homes in four departments: agronomy, horticultural sciences, environmental horticulture and the School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences. Those faculty already regularly mentor graduate students, who also study plant breeding and earn graduate degrees in agronomy, horticultural sciences, forest resources and conservation or plant molecular and cellular biology.
<figure id="attachment_1784" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1784" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-1784 size-medium lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="300" height="200" data-src="http://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/cals/wp-content/blogs.dir/193/files/2021/07/Plant-Breeding-PHD_071221_Meru-with-student-smaller-300x200.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1784" class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Geoffrey Meru, a vegetable geneticist and breeder at the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, works with a student in his lab.</figcaption></figure>
“As the number of plant breeders has grown, there has been a growing interest in having a degree program called plant breeding, which makes it clearer that this is an academic emphasis at UF/IFAS CALS,” Turner said.
Students will start their hands-on learning in August. As they do, they’ll learn from about 27 UF/IFAS scientists across the state. <a href="https://programs.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-breeding/faculty/">Those researchers use traditional and newer breeding technologies, including gene editing</a>.
Through plant breeding, researchers try to ensure crops and ornamental plants resist diseases, pests, droughts and flooding. They also hope to make sure the fruits taste good and that plants emit a wonderful aroma and look beautiful.
<a href="https://programs.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-breeding/faculty/">Those crops include citrus, tomatoes, strawberries, peanuts, blueberries, corn, lettuce and sugar cane</a>. UF/IFAS breeders also develop ornamental plants and cattle forage.
“One of CALS’ highest priorities is to provide relevant curricula so we can meet our mission of preparing students to meet the world’s critical challenges in agriculture, food systems, human wellbeing, natural resources and sustainable communities,” Turner said. “This program integrates expertise of faculty across four different departments into one-degree program.”
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The mission of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is to develop knowledge relevant to agricultural, human and natural resources and to make that knowledge available to sustain and enhance the quality of human life. With more than a dozen research facilities, 67 county Extension offices, and award-winning students and faculty in the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UF/IFAS brings science-based solutions to the state’s agricultural and natural resources industries, and all Florida residents. 
<a href="http://www.ifas.ufl.edu">ifas.ufl.edu</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/UF_IFAS">@UF_IFAS</a>
 
 
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Working in labs and fields across Florida, a new generation of students will start earning a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the University of Florida – the first program of its kind in Florida and one of a few in the nation.
The UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has received approval from the Florida Board of Governors to start the program. Seven students are in the first cohort to begin in August.
Coursework will be available in person in Gainesville and online for students conducting their dissertation research off-campus at one of the UF/IFAS research and education centers throughout the state. The ability to conduct their entire program where their crop is grown and bred, from vanilla in Homestead to peanuts in the Panhandle, will be a great benefit to students.
“The new Ph.D. program is important because it will help attract the best plant-breeding students to UF/IFAS, and it will help us as faculty to provide them the best possible education,” said Vance Whitaker, a UF/IFAS associate professor of horticultural sciences and a strawberry breeder at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center. “It will help create synergy among the plant-breeding students working across multiple departments.”
The students will do their coursework primarily in Gainesville and work on their dissertation research mostly in the location of their advisor’s lab.
“Students’ dissertation research will contribute substantially to breeding programs, because the success of varieties released by breeding programs is built on the science of breeding and genetics,”  Whitaker said. “Plant breeding is vital to meeting the food, feed, fiber and environmental quality needs of our burgeoning worldwide population. Developing better crops will help us produce more food with fewer resources in a sustainable manner. Our students are passionate about those needs and goals, and that is why they want to become plant breeders.”
Elaine Turner, dean of UF/IFAS CALS, said top-flight graduate students will help scientists as they work toward solving issues such as hunger.
“Plant breeding is an important element in our collective efforts toward global food security,” Turner said. “Recruiting top graduate students and providing them an outstanding academic program that incorporates traditional and modern breeding techniques along with applications of artificial intelligence, will help us achieve our goal of eliminating hunger through sustainable food production.”
UF/IFAS CALS already has many faculty members whose research focuses on plant breeding, with academic homes in four departments: agronomy, horticultural sciences, environmental horticulture and the School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences. Those faculty already regularly mentor graduate students, who also study plant breeding and earn graduate degrees in agronomy, horticultural sciences, forest resources and conservation or plant molecular and cellular biology.
Dr. Geoffrey Meru, a vegetable geneticist and breeder at the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, works with a student in his lab.
“As the number of plant breeders has grown, there has been a growing interest in having a degree program called plant breeding, which makes it clearer that this is an academic emphasis at UF/IFAS CALS,” Turner said.
Students will start their hands-on learning in August. As they do, they’ll learn from about 27 UF/IFAS scientists across the state. Those researchers use traditional and newer breeding technologies, including gene editing.
Through plant breeding, researchers try to ensure crops and ornamental plants resist diseases, pests, droughts and flooding. They also hope to make sure the fruits taste good and that plants emit a wonderful aroma and look beautiful.
Those crops include citrus, tomatoes, strawberries, peanuts, blueberries, corn, lettuce and sugar cane. UF/IFAS breeders also develop ornamental plants and cattle forage.
“One of CALS’ highest priorities is to provide relevant curricula so we can meet our mission of preparing students to meet the world’s critical challenges in agriculture, food systems, human wellbeing, natural resources and sustainable communities,” Turner said. “This program integrates expertise of faculty across four different departments into one-degree program.”
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The mission of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is to develop knowledge relevant to agricultural, human and natural resources and to make that knowledge available to sustain and enhance the quality of human life. With more than a dozen research facilities, 67 county Extension offices, and award-winning students and faculty in the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UF/IFAS brings science-based solutions to the state’s agricultural and natural resources industries, and all Florida residents. 
ifas.ufl.edu  |  @UF_IFAS

Working in labs and fields across Florida, a new generation of students will start earning a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the University of Florida – the first program of its kind in Florida and one of a few in the nation. The UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has received approval from the […]

UF/IFAS awarded 1st Ph.D. plant breeding program in Florida, one of few in USA

Jay Capasso, UF/IFAS Columbia County Extension, Sylvia Willis, UF/IFAS Suwannee County Extension (An Equal Opportunity Institution) Determining when to harvest peanuts is a difficult and important economic decision for growers. Peanuts are an indeterminate crop, meaning they flower, set fruit, and maintain vegetative growth throughout the season. Since they are continuously setting fruit, peanuts do [&#8230;]

Jay Capasso, UF/IFAS Columbia County Extension, Sylvia Willis, UF/IFAS Suwannee County Extension (An Equal Opportunity Institution)
Determining when to harvest peanuts is a difficult and important economic decision for growers. Peanuts are an indeterminate crop, meaning they flower, set fruit, and maintain vegetative growth throughout the season. Since they are continuously setting fruit, peanuts do not mature evenly throughout a field and are harvested at the end of the season at various stages of maturity. This is a different scenario compared to determinate crops, such as corn or wheat, which mature at roughly the same time throughout a field. Peanut growers aim to dig their crop when most of their peanuts are optimally mature to gain the most yield.
Every year, around the end of the season, peanut growers often contact their local extension agents to “pod blast” peanuts to help determine peanut maturity and when to dig. Pod blasting refers to a method of determining peanut maturity that involves utilizing a pressure washer to blow off the outer peanut shell (exocarp). Around 180 – 200 peanuts are collected from 4-5 plants representatively sampled from different locations in a field. Removing the outer hull exposes the color of the underlying mesocarp in the saddle area of the peanut pod. Peanut maturity is determined by sorting peanut pods by color based on the Maturity Profile Board developed by Williams and Drexler (1981). Other methods of gauging peanut maturity involve utilizing a knife, instead of a pressure washer, to scrape off the outer shell to observe the interior color or using the shellout method. The shellout method involves splitting open peanut shells to observe the interior color of the pods. Darker interior color due to aged veins and cell death indicates maturity.
The crop is generally considered optimally mature after 70% or more of the pods are observed to be mature, meaning they are in brown or black color classes on the Maturity Profile Board. Utilizing a pressure washer is a helpful tool when examining larger, more representative samples of a field. The Maturity Profile Board helps predict when the crop will reach optimal maturity through the observation of the number peanut pods in each color class. These tools can also be useful in comparing maturity levels between different fields, helping growers decide which fields should be dug first.
<figure id="attachment_601" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-601" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-601 lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="" width="300" height="177" data-src="https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nfrecsv/wp-content/blogs.dir/188/files/2024/02/Peanut-Maturity-Board-300x177.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-601" class="wp-caption-text">Image 1: The peanut maturity board where pod blasted peanuts are sorted into different color classes.</figcaption></figure>
Pod blasting can be a subjective tool because individuals perceive and interpret the color of the mesoscarp differently. It is helpful to observe pod blasted peanuts in consistently well-lit environments. Growers should also consider the vine health of their crop and the recommended days after planting of their peanut variety when determining digging date.
For more information on pod blasting see video below:
<iframe loading="lazy" title="UF/IFAS Extension - Peanut Pod Blasting Clinic" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5pOI_4bWw4I?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Jay Capasso, UF/IFAS Columbia County Extension, Sylvia Willis, UF/IFAS Suwannee County Extension (An Equal Opportunity Institution)
Determining when to harvest peanuts is a difficult and important economic decision for growers. Peanuts are an indeterminate crop, meaning they flower, set fruit, and maintain vegetative growth throughout the season. Since they are continuously setting fruit, peanuts do not mature evenly throughout a field and are harvested at the end of the season at various stages of maturity. This is a different scenario compared to determinate crops, such as corn or wheat, which mature at roughly the same time throughout a field. Peanut growers aim to dig their crop when most of their peanuts are optimally mature to gain the most yield.
Every year, around the end of the season, peanut growers often contact their local extension agents to “pod blast” peanuts to help determine peanut maturity and when to dig. Pod blasting refers to a method of determining peanut maturity that involves utilizing a pressure washer to blow off the outer peanut shell (exocarp). Around 180 – 200 peanuts are collected from 4-5 plants representatively sampled from different locations in a field. Removing the outer hull exposes the color of the underlying mesocarp in the saddle area of the peanut pod. Peanut maturity is determined by sorting peanut pods by color based on the Maturity Profile Board developed by Williams and Drexler (1981). Other methods of gauging peanut maturity involve utilizing a knife, instead of a pressure washer, to scrape off the outer shell to observe the interior color or using the shellout method. The shellout method involves splitting open peanut shells to observe the interior color of the pods. Darker interior color due to aged veins and cell death indicates maturity.
The crop is generally considered optimally mature after 70% or more of the pods are observed to be mature, meaning they are in brown or black color classes on the Maturity Profile Board. Utilizing a pressure washer is a helpful tool when examining larger, more representative samples of a field. The Maturity Profile Board helps predict when the crop will reach optimal maturity through the observation of the number peanut pods in each color class. These tools can also be useful in comparing maturity levels between different fields, helping growers decide which fields should be dug first.
Image 1: The peanut maturity board where pod blasted peanuts are sorted into different color classes.
Pod blasting can be a subjective tool because individuals perceive and interpret the color of the mesoscarp differently. It is helpful to observe pod blasted peanuts in consistently well-lit environments. Growers should also consider the vine health of their crop and the recommended days after planting of their peanut variety when determining digging date.
For more information on pod blasting see video below:

Jay Capasso, UF/IFAS Columbia County Extension, Sylvia Willis, UF/IFAS Suwannee County Extension (An Equal Opportunity Institution) Determining when to harvest peanuts is a difficult and important economic decision for growers. Peanuts are an indeterminate crop, meaning they flower, set fruit, and maintain vegetative growth throughout the season. Since they are continuously setting fruit, peanuts do […]

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