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New Products: November 2024

LandScan Secures Digital Twin Patent A groundbreaking patent, granted to LandScan, marks the first of its kind in the agriculture sector, involving the use of digital twin technology to revolutionize site characterization and precision farming practices. The advent of digital twin...

Beyond The Edible Market

A University of Georgia research team collaborates on oil production and varieties. A new study by experts in the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is seeking to increase the value of Georgia’s peanut crops for new...

Mighty Mites

The two-spotted spider mite is a small pest that was a big problem in fields this summer. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ The master of surviving high temperatures, the two-spotted spider mite was a frequent pest to peanut fields this summer....

The Goal: A Safer Peanut

HudsonAlpha scientists are using genomics and biotechnology to address aflatoxin and drought stress. Peanuts are a crucial cash crop for countless farmers in the United States and across the globe. Their cultivation generates income, fosters rural development and empowers communities,...

Fighting Warehouse Fires, Dryer Noise Reduction

An agricultural engineer for NPRL, Joseph McIntyre, is working on projects to make storing and drying peanuts safer. Specifically, he is working on an early fire detection sensor and system for peanut warehouses, which also has potential in cotton...

Getting Ahead Of Peanut Smut

The center of origin of peanut is located in South America, specifically in southeastern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. In the early 1990s, peanut production moved to more southern areas of Argentina’s Córdoba Province, and as a result, a new...

Solving It With Science

From farmer to consumer, whatever questions arise, the National Peanut Research Lab uses cutting-edge research techniques to find the answer. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ The National Peanut Research Lab, in Dawson, Georgia, was a stop on this year’s Georgia Peanut...

Helene Wreaks Havoc

Can farmers and buying points recover in time to gather the 2024 crop? ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Hurricane Helene swirled past its Florida landfall and was still a strong, fast-moving hurricane well into North Georgia. Devastation was left in its...

Georgia Ag Partners Launch Hurricane Relief Fund

The Georgia Department of Agriculture, in a partnership with the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture and in support by the Georgia Farm Bureau, has launched the Weathered But Strong: Hurricane Relief Fund to aid farmers and ranchers facing devastating losses...

Farmer Profile: Elisha Barnes

Doing things ‘the old way’ is this Southampton, Virginia, peanut producer’s passion. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ From articles in both Southern Living and Garden and Gun, to a feature on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers.gov “Friday’s on the Farm”...

Future Weed Scientists: New Skillsets Needed

A Weed Science Society of America survey identifies robotics and precision weed management as needed skills. Technical competencies among weed scientists will likely need to expand quickly to accomplish future research priorities, according to recent results from a Weed Science...

All In On Boosting Yields

Auburn researchers look for ways to increase average yields and manage input costs. Peaks and valleys is one way to describe yields U.S. peanut producers have had over the years. These inconsistencies are prompting Auburn University researchers to search for...

Harvest Decisions

⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Most everyone would agree that determining when to dig peanuts was a challenge this past year, and many farmers did not get the grades and yields they wanted, especially on the earliest harvested portion of...

Blade Change Decisions Are Not Cutting It

Clemson University’s precision ag team searches for an objective way to determine when to change digger blades. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Scooping up and slicing the taproot is the start of peanut harvest, and blades are a primary part of...

Thank You, Dr. Brandenburg

Your contributions to the industry and especially the peanut growers of North Carolina are sincerely appreciated. ⋅ BY DAVID JORDAN ⋅ North Carolina State University Extension Agronomist Editor’s Note: North Carolina State University Extension entomologist Rick Brandenburg is retiring in 2024...

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