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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...

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...