Peanut research tackles seed, disease cost control.

The article discusses the peanut research of Alabama's Auburn University focusing on seed, and disease and nematode control. It describes the results of its three-year irrigated seeding rate study at Headland, Alabama, with the same results obtained at Fairhope near the Gulf Coast. It notes that the Georgia-07 variety had the lowest amount of disease and the highest yield. It also talks about fungicide inputs, using applications of chlorothalonil with a generic program and a Cadillac program.