Peaches have a 2023 GA Farm Gate Value of over $20 million

We are starting to see a sudden surge of bacterial spot on leaves and fruit of peach. I visited an untreated O’Henry block yesterday in Fort Valley, and virtually all the fruit and most of the leaves were covered in bacterial spot. The images below show spotting of fruit and leaves as we observed them […]

While this season has been off to an unpredictable start, a famous American once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except San Jose scale and taxes,”… or something like that. Although we had some unfortunate cold spells, overall we have had a warmer start to the season than we did […]

I can’t believe it is already March, but with the cooler temperature this spring, the scale insects have been slow to develop as well. However, with the warmer temperatures on the way, the scale will begin to develop, so if you haven’t gotten out your delayed-dormant spray yet, and you aren’t to pink stage yet, […]