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Peanut Disease and Fungicide Programs for Your Field

Get the most out of your peanut program with the Peanut Doctor, Wilson Faircloth, Ph.D.

Diagnose Your Toughest Peanut Problems

With our powerful portfolio of products and unmatched field expertise, we help growers to fight common peanut diseases more effectively — and maximize yield potential. Explore our resources to overcome your toughest peanut-growing obstacles.

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Disease Threats

Pythium

Pythium, Rhizoctonia and Other Diseases
Pythium is a common disease that infects the seed at or before germination. Rhizoctonia infects through leaf petioles, crowns or roots and has the ability to affect all parts of the plant. Early season treatment is vital to protecting crops at their most vulnerable state.

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White Mold

White Mold
White mold is one of the most prevalent disease threats to peanut growers across the Southeast. Without proper preventive treatment, this disease can damage roots and pegs, leading to reduced yield potential.

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Superior Disease Control for Unrivaled Plant Health

Untreated crops

Untreated
Preventive fungicide applications are the best way to protect your peanut crops from common diseases like white mold, early and late leaf spot, Rhizoctonia and more.

Treated crops

Treated with Elatus®
Proactive planning and early-season fungicide applications are essential to minimize disease impact and protect yield potential in your peanut crops.

Insect Threats

Lesser Cornstalk Borer and Soybean Looper

Lesser Cornstalk Borer and Soybean Looper
LCB population outbreaks typically occur during hot, dry weather. However, when the weather is hot and wet, soybean looper worm flights will begin to pick up - and they're headed for your peanut fields.

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Thrips

Thrips
A thrips infestation will cause distorted leaves, leaf browning and leaf death. Early-season seed treatment can help fight this pesky pest.

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Meet the Peanut Doctor

Wilson Faircloth, Ph.D.

Wilson Faircloth, Ph.D., brings his agronomic expertise to the Peanut Doctor video series, giving growers the top tips and tricks to help to grow the highest quality peanut crops.

From disease challenges to insects and beyond, this series provides information on best practices to help maximize the potential of peanuts.

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Related Products

Explore even more powerful products that can help you overcome tough peanut crop challenges.

Trebuset logo

Trebuset® fungicide seed treatment offers longer-lasting, broad-spectrum disease control to get your crops off to a strong start. Powered by ADEPIDYN® technology, a novel molecule, Trebuset protects developing roots with vigorous soil movement to promote strong early-season plant establishment and enhance yield potential in cereals, peanuts, dry shelled peas, beans and corn.

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 Miravis logo

Miravis® delivers excellent control of key diseases in peanuts, pome and stone fruit with more power, spectrum and stamina. A broad-spectrum carboxamide chemistry with an SDHI mode of action, Miravis sets a new standard and length of residual control to help growers achieve maximum yield potential.

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 Elatus logo

With two active ingredients, Elatus® fungicide provides excellent control of foliar and soilborne diseases. The robust chemistry in Elatus provides improved, long-lasting residual control for excellent preventive disease control.

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Syngenta News

Top Stories From Thrive

Thrive is your national source for agricultural news and information from Syngenta. Read articles about innovation from the lab to the field and stories about the people who are empowering farm communities across the country.

 

Georgia Peanut Farmer Focuses on Disease Control to Improve Crop Yield

Controlling disease at Southern Grace Farms also helps farmer Tim McMillian reduce the quality and yield impact from weather conditions.
 

They Saved the Peanut Industry

An unprecedented threat leads to extraordinary collaboration across disciplines in the peanut industry.
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Agronomic News

"Know More, Grow More" a Syngenta agronomy blog, provides the latest agronomic insights and crop management advice. Browse our blog to read the latest insights from the field.

 

For Best Results, Tackle Peanut Diseases from All Angles

When planning disease management programs, weather conditions are an important consideration. Many diseases favor warm, humid climates.
 

Make a Seed Treatment Part of Your Early-season Peanut Protection Plan

Diseases like Fusarium, Pythium and Rhizoctonia pose a threat to peanut seedlings, making it vital to prevent them from occurring.
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