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...
Authored by: Barry Tillman, UF/IFAS Peanut Breeder & Interim NFREC Director
For the past several years, I have been wondering if tomato spotted wilt has “left our region.” Of course, I know it has not, but we certainly have not...
Mark Burow receives honor from American Peanut Research Education Society
KAY LEDBETTER / COLLEGE STSTION, TEXAS
Burow, who is stationed at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock and is also a professor in the Texas Tech Department of Plant...
Written by Mark Abney
I consider August the beginning of the home stretch for Georgia’s peanut crop, and it is often the month when we see increased pressure from a variety of insect pests.
Some things to think about as we...
Zane Grabau
The summer row crop season is well underway, which also means that hotspots of damage from plant-parasitic nematodes are also appearing. While a few fields with patches of nematode damage is seemingly inevitable, that does not make it...
David Jordan
NORTH CAROLINA
This time of year, a major focus is on preparing and entering the harvest season. One of the most important decisions is related to when to start digging and inverting vines. Determining the maturity of pods, a...
At the Southern Peanut Grower’s Convention, the Valor Award was presented by Valent, USA and John Alton. The definition of Valor means “Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle.” The 2026 Valor Award recipient was Don Koehler, Senior...
Denise Attaway
This discovery could help plant breeders develop peanut varieties that reduce the risk of accidental allergic exposure while creating new opportunities for South Carolina farmers
Clemson scientists have identified naturally occurring peanut lines with lower levels of the proteins...
Henry Jordan
Think you can predict the top‑performing PEANUT varieties in Alabama? Enter the 2026 OVT PEANUT Challenge and choose your top picks for Alabama. Anyone can participate. Prizes and bragging rights are on the line!
Prizes:
Prizes will be awarded...
Maíra Duffeck
Frequent rainfall during May and June across western Oklahoma has increased the risk of peanut foliar diseases, particularly Early leaf spot. A simulation using the Leaf Spot Advisor available through the Oklahoma Mesonet indicates that the risk of early leaf...
Matt Pinhal
After the driest April we’ve seen in years in the county, May more than made up for it with close to seventeen inches of rain at the Jay station. June started off hot and dry, but the rain...
