PeanutFARM Website Aids Irrigation and Harvest Decisions
The PeanutFARM website will soon offer “days to dig” predictions based on automated digital peanut profile image analysis. Photo credit: Doug Mayo By Diane Rowland, Plant Physiologist, UF/IFAS...
View ArticleSesame Production: A New Crop for Florida
Growers Randall Dasher and Jerry Goff at a sesame field in McAlpin, FL. Photo credit: Diane Rowland For the past four years, Dr. Diane Rowland, a Crop Physiologist with the UF Agronomy Department,...
View ArticleCotton Irrigation Scheduling App Saves Water & Money
Irrigation and nitrogen fertilizer are keys to producing high yielding cotton. New scheduling tools being tested at Southeastern Universities may help farmers utilize these valuable inputs more...
View ArticleOptimizing Peanut Maturity – A Review of Methods and Techniques
Figure 1. Peanut harvest is just around the corner, and with that comes the tough decision of when to dig peanuts. By Diane Rowland and Ethan Carter, University of Florida It’s almost that time of the...
View ArticleUF/IFAS Researchers Studying Corn Root Development in Florida’s Sandy Soils
Chaein Na and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department University of Florida researchers conducted an extensive field trial recently to investigate the hidden half of the corn plant, namely the...
View ArticlePeanutFARM Irrigation and Harvest Tool is Now Mobile Friendly
Brendan Zurweller and Diane Rowland, UFIFAS Agronomy Department Even in the southeast, where annual rainfall totals would lead you to believe that water stress rarely occurs, depletion of soil water...
View ArticleSesameFARM – A New Irrigation Scheduling Model for Sesame Production
Romain Gloaguen and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Sesame research has been carried out at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) for more than 5 years now. Scientist there know more about...
View ArticleThe Role of Stress Memory on Peanut Seed Quality
Peanut seeldings. Photo credit: Kelly Racette Kelly Racette, Diane Rowland and Barry Tillman, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department For as long as crops have been domesticated, farmers have been selecting seed...
View ArticlePeanut Nodule Analysis to Assess Crop Health
Picture: UF/IFAS agronomy students dig up peanut plants for a nodule sample at the Suwannee Valley Agricultural Extension Center near Live Oak, FL David Hensley and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Agronomy...
View ArticleDeveloping a “Stress Breathalyzer” for Peanuts
Yu-Chien Tseng, Brendan Zurweller and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Growers typically use indirect methods to sense crop stress, such as soil moisture sensors to predict crop drought...
View ArticleRapid Response Team Deployed to Investigate Peanut Collapse
Figure 1: Research plots in 2017 affected by peanut collapse. Photo by B. Tillman Shannon McAmis, De Broughton, Nick Dufault, Ian Small, Zane Grabau, Barry Tillman, and Diane Rowland, UF/IFAS Extension...
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