Plan focuses on increasing peanut passion among Gen Z while strengthening connections with all consumers ATLANTA The grower-funded National Peanut Board is beginning its next chapter with the launch of its 2026-2028 Strategic Plan. Key attributes of the plan include a refreshed mission statement,...

Aflatoxin Research Update has been reschedule to Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Hosted by American Peanut Shellers Association, National Peanut Buying Points Association, Southern Peanut Farmers Federation, and the United States Peanut Federation, Was Reschedule to Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at...

(November 2025) USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service Peanut Price Highlights Peanut prices received by farmers for all farmer stock peanuts averaged 21.7 cents per pound for the week ending November 15, down 4.1 cents from the previous week. Marketings of...

Seated L-R Alex Izmirlian, Premium Peanut, Anne-Marie DeLorenzo, Mars Wrigley, Nick Smith, along with Moderator and fellow Peanut Broker, Collins McNeil of M.C. McNeill & Co., update attendees during the Peanut and Tree Nut Processors Association Convention. By Nick Smith,...

DR. NICHOLAS DUFAULT, DR. BARRY TILLMAN AND DR. MARCO GOYZUETTA GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA With the 2025 peanut season concluding, it’s a good time to review this year’s plant disease issues and prepare for the next. Last year, the focus was on soilborne diseases...

By Joy Crosbyin Front-page, GROWERS, MEDIA TIFTON, Ga. — Make plans to attend the 49th annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show and Conference scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton,...

ALLISON FLOYD ATHENS, GEORGIA More than 4,000 miles separate the capital cities of Senegal in West Africa and Uganda in East Africa. If you drove eight hours a day, it would take you more than two weeks to make the journey. Yet both countries grow peanuts and, like...

KATIE NICHOLS AUBURN UNIVERSITY, ALABAMA Every peanut counts. In a time when agricultural markets are unpredictable, Alabama Extension is helping peanut producers understand how the value of their crop is determined and providing the steps to calculate it. Aaron Wells, an agronomic...

This vial holds Aspergillus parasiticus, a species of fungus commonly found in foodstuffs, known for producing toxic carcinogenic metabolites called aflatoxins. Sachin Rustgi, a Clemson molecular breeder, is leading a group of scientists who are studying to determine a...

Kalli, Susmitha, Yangxuan Liu, University of Georgia, Hunter D. Biram, University of Arkansas, and Fayu Chong, Virginia Tech. “Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New Under the OBBB Act.” Southern Ag Today – October 27, 2025. The One Big...

  Bonnie Coblentz  / STARKVILLE, Miss. The majority of Mississippi’s peanut crop is out of the ground and looking good, with recent rain across the state in late October slowing harvest progress. Brendan Zurweller, peanut specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension...

I’ve been skipping down memory lane lately thinking of the people I need to thank for the many wonderful years in the peanut industry and as editor of The Peanut Grower. But my journey started even before this. My FFA...

Checklist For Successful Planting Southwest peanut growers are busy planting peanuts in May. Please make sure you check the following suggestions to ensure the successful planting and stand establishment: ■ Maintain planter (all tubes and units) and tractor. ■ Check the soil...

Drought is expected to continue in the Southwest and expand into parts of the Southeast and Virginia-Carolina region in the early season. In late March and early April, forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center offered...

What are the current recommendations on lime, gypsum or gypsum replacement products? Peanuts, a legume, provide their own nitrogen through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria, and the deep tap root is good at scavenging residual soil phosphorus and potassium. That...