Georgia-04S: A high-yielding, high-oleic, Spanish-type variety, Georgia-04S was developed at the UGA Coastal Plain Experiment Station. Intended for the same market, Georgia-04S has later maturity and pod and seed size similar to other Spanish-market types. Georgia-04S has shown significantly...
Bailey: Released by NCSU, Bailey is a medium to large-seeded and high-yielding Virginia-type peanut. It has produced high yields across multiple years and locations, which is an indication of good tolerance to fluctuations of weather and growth conditions. Bailey...
Florida-07: This medium-to-late runner market-type peanut was released from the University of Florida in 2006. It has shown excellent yield potential with good grades. Seed are larger and, for this reason, gypsum is recommended for additional calcium. It has...
Warehouses already brimming with peanuts and the consequences of shortened rotation schemes are two important points going into 2016.
By Amanda Huber
As planning for the 2016 crop begins, producers are already being cautioned to not plant a single seed until...
Peanut varieties of today have resistance to multiple diseases and can usually yield well even under disease pressure. Because of this resistance, producers are encouraged to plant in April once again in order to make sure the crop is...
Be sure moisture can’t get back into stored peanuts and create conditions for mold growth.
Editor’s Note: Splits and sprouting are two words no producer wants to hear in relation to a peanut crop. But according to Maria Balota, associate...
By Mark Abney, University of Georgia Extension Entomologist
Insect and mite pressure in peanut can vary dramatically from year to year and even from field to field within a year. Each growing season brings with it new challenges; growers in...
With harvest incomplete and some areas declaring disaster from flooding, the outlook on 2016 is full of too many unknowns. However, peanuts will be planted to meet the robust demand for peanut butter and other peanut products. In many...
Farming may seem to be a solitary occupation, and while producers do spend long hours in the field by themselves, every producer knows there is a team of people he works with to be successful. There is the crop...
Profitability involves putting all the pieces together in a timely manner to bring about a quality product that yields above what is needed to cover costs. From planting through harvest, there is a set schedule of management steps that...
What does the coming season hold for you? How can you prepare for success? What production management strategies and tools can help increase your yield?
Here’s what you’ll discover in this issue of The Peanut Grower Inoculant Guide:
The economics of...
Weather threatens crop yields in the East, while the West starts harvest with a month of good field conditions.
By Amanda Huber
With a crop that was good in many areas, fair in others most of the season, the weather...
One small peanut seed contains all of the potential for a top-yielding crop of healthy, delicious and nutritious peanuts. However, planting the seed is not enough to achieve all of that potential. Producers must make sound planting decisions prior...
Q. What is the benefit of using an inoculant?
A. As a legume crop, peanuts can supply their own nitrogen, but only if rhizobia bacterium is available in the root zone and in close proximity to the emerging seedling to...
Now with two rotors, the Colombo peanut combine offers the potential to harvest more acres of whole, clean peanuts.
Colombo North America came on the U.S. peanut landscape nearly 10 years ago. Since then, their axial-flow combines garnered the attention...
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