The collapse of Delta Peanut threatened farmers, families and an agricultural industry built across the Mid-South A chronological feature on the 2026 Delta Peanut crisis For peanut farmers across Arkansas and southeast Missouri, September is supposed to be a season of...

Article by Samaria Garrett, MS, RDN When many people think about sustainable living, they picture reusable containers, organic grocery stores or carefully curated kitchens. Sustainability is often presented as something to purchase or lifestyle defined by products and aesthetics. But long...

Researchers hope to create a therapy that reduces the fear, anxiety and lifestyle limitations associated with peanut allergy. A research team at the UNC School of Medicine has received a $3.5 million federal grant to develop a long-lasting, safer treatment...

National Peanut Buying Points Association MARKET WATCH PEANUT STOCKS AND PROCESSING REPORT– USDA’s Peanut Stocks and Processing Report shows for the month of July 2026, the 12th month of the marketing year, peanut stocks in commercial storage totaled 3.20 billion pounds equivalent farmer...

Dr. David Jordan North Carolina State University  Growers across the Virginia-Carolina region continue to protect peanuts from leaf spot disease, southern stem rot, and Sclerotinia blight. Most growers are making their final sprays during the week of September 7. Growers across...

by Murdoch University edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin An international team that includes researchers from Murdoch University's Centre for Crop and Food Innovation (CCFI) has built the most comprehensive genetic map of the peanut yet and used this new genomic...

By: Ibukunoluwa Adelekan, Sarah Beth Thompson, and Wesley Porter Harvest for peanut  s has already started in the earlier planted peanuts across the state. With the later plant dates on the decline from peak water usage, the earlier plant dates...

BONNIE COBLENTZ STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI  How Mississippi’s peanut crop fared this year depended mostly on location, with drastically different growing conditions from the north to the southeast part of the state. George and Monroe counties are the state’s top producing counties, and there...

David Jordan NORTH CAROLINA As we move into harvest season, the phrase “slow down” is not what we want to hear, but we know that letting peanuts reach optimum maturity pays when it comes to yield and market grades. For Virginia...

Scott Monfort GEORGIA Peanut Maturity/Harvest Peanut harvest is approaching, and I know everyone is starting to look at peanut maturity samples. I have looked at several samples of Ga-06G and  TifNV-HG. They are all showing maturity in the 140-45 DAP range...

At a Glance Gut microbe transplants treated some peanut allergies in an early-stage clinical trial. The results suggest changing a person’s microbiome using oral capsules may be a potential food allergy treatment. Image Microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses, that...

THE NATIONAL PEANUT BOARD Dee Dee with some of the inaugural National Peanut Board members The National Peanut Board (NPB) is mourning the loss of former board member and chair Dee Dee Darden, who passed away on July 7 after a...

2026 NPB board members and staff U.S. peanut growers on the National Peanut Board (NPB) unanimously approved the proposed fiscal year 2027 (FY-27) Program of Work and $13.1 million budget during the 2026 Board Meeting that took place from July...

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is asking selected producers to complete the USDA’s annual County Agricultural Production Survey (CAPS). Information reported through the survey helps USDA produce the nation's only official yearly county...

By Ross Greene, UGA Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, Candler and Evans Counties, Wesley M. Porter, Extension Precision Ag and Irrigation Specialist, and Sarah Beth Thompson Editor’s Note: This article updates a July 2025 blog post, “Don’t Let Peanuts Get...