January is a good time to make plans for the 2025 crop year and learn new practices, as well as consider what worked and didn’t work in the past year. The following are a couple of conferences that producers...
Alabama Extension peanut agronomist Kris Balkcom outlines challenges from 2024 as producers look ahead to this year.
Plus, two conferences offer additional learning opportunities
To prepare for the coming crop year, most experts agree that it’s important to look at what...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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