• By Barry Tillman and Scott Monfort •
Excessive peanut vine growth can be problematic in several ways. First, too much vine can increase disease because of the ability of the canopy to hold moisture and the inability of fungicides...
Continued rainfall in Georgia is mostly good news for peanut growers from an insect management point of view (disease management is a different story, but Dr. Bob Kemerait can tell that one).
The most damaging pest of peanut in Georgia...
Bob Sutter, Dell Cotton and Marianne Catalano were recently recognized for their contributions to the peanut industry in the Virginia-Carolina Region.
They received the Corteva Excellence in Education Award presented by the American Peanut Research and Education Society.
Sutter is retiring...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
For 54 years, Dr. Charles Simpson, has been making a difference in the peanut products America eats — and on July 1, he was honored by the American Peanut Council with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Four Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences plant breeding program development projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture....
• By David Jordan •
One important question this year is what is the yield loss with lower plant populations? This can be difficult to answer.
Is it a general reduction in stand across the field or long skips or spotty...
A Clemson University research scientist renowned for his role in reviving the original Southern peanut crop from only a handful of seeds has been elected president of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation.
Brian Ward, based out of Clemson’s Coastal Research...
The University of Georgia will hold insect scouting schools on June 7 in Tifton and June 15 in Midville, Georgia.
Crops to be covered include cotton, peanuts, and soybean. These programs offer basic information on insect pest identification and damage,...
• By Mary Hightower •
May’s dark parade of rain has provided frustration aplenty for Arkansas farmers trying to get a crop in the ground, however, “this past week could’ve been much worse,” said Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist for...
The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that modern peanut plants can’t. The genetic diversity of these wild relatives means that they can shrug off the diseases that kill farmers’ peanut...
Each year, The Fertilizer Institute recognizes 4R Advocates, five pairs of retailers and farmers who are making 4R Nutrient Stewardship a priority in their operations. These partners get it, 4R Farming makes sense economically and environmentally. And that's why...
The Seam, which provides food and agribusiness software and commodity trading products, recently entered into multi-year agreements for its cloud-based peanut management platform with Coastal Growers and Tifton Peanut Co.
Coastal Growers, a farmer-owned cooperative, is building a new 400,000-square-foot,...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered AZterknot fungicide from Vive Crop Protection for use on a wide array of crops, including corn, cotton, peanuts, rice and soybeans.
It is a premix of a traditional fungicide, azoxystrobin, and a biological, an...
The Georgia Peanut Commission’s referendum received reaffirmation with a vote of 94.43%, the highest the commission has received in its nearly 60-year existence. The 2021 referendum was held March 15 through April 16.
“I am thankful our board and staff...
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