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

I just wanted to alert everyone that the EPA is being asked to decide whether five widely used neonicotinoid insecticides should continue to be allowed on food crops. This stems from a 2020 petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for the EPA to revoke all food-residue tolerances for: The NRDC has since sued EPA, […]

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 […]