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...
⋅ 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...
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...
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...
More frequent and heavier rainfall leads to more Valor injury and earlier disease pressure.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
Rain is a necessary element to peanut production. “If it don’t rain, it don’t matter,” was a favorite mantra of the now-retired...
An innovator in peanut breeding whose research revitalized an industry, William D. Branch, Georgia Seed Development professor in peanut breeding and genetics in the University of Georgia’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, was recently inducted into the Georgia...
The Wild Arachis Species Special Session of the APRES annual meeting is now named to honor Dr. Charles Simpson.
The American Peanut Research and Education Society recently announced that the 2024 annual meeting would host the inaugural Charles Simpson Wild...
The new UGA-Tifton lab will fuel innovation in precision agriculture.
With the global population expected to increase from 8 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, agricultural researchers and producers are faced with the looming challenges of how to feed a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the 2023 production estimates in January showing U.S. peanut yields down 7% from 2022 at 3,740 pounds per acre. As shown in Figure 1, a majority of states’ peanut yields declined in 2023...
Southwest Georgia peanut farmer Casey Cox Kerr discusses what drew her back to the farm and what she plans to leave for future generations.
When Casey Cox Kerr was a child, she watched her dad farm while snacking on raw...
From chlorpyrifos to dicamba, growers can’t help being confused by recent rulings.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
That courts now complicate pesticide registration and application is something growers should get used to, say University of Georgia Extension specialists. Both peanuts and...
Use past problems and multiple management tools to combat pathogens in your fields.
⋅ BY NICHOLAS DUFAULT ⋅
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
A review of past disease problems that affected the peanut crop offers a good look at...
Despite no Farm Bill, the U.S. Congress is at work on agricultural legislation.
The U.S. Congress recently passed legislation that included six appropriations packages: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies; Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies;...
The American Peanut Council is heading to South Korea as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agribusiness trade mission. APC applied for and was accepted to join the mission to Seoul in March led by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Affairs...
Time, thought and awareness can help prevent many problems with weed management.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
It was Marcus Tullious Cicero, a statesman, lawyer and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, who possibly first wrote,...
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