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...
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.
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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.
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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...
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