Check out the 2023 Peanut Grower Pest Management Guide. It includes updates to the Disease Risk Index as well as Insect Management and Weed Management sections.
Field days are an opportunity to see research plots and to learn how those findings can be applied in growers’ fields. At the 2022 peanut field day at the Clemson Edisto Research and Education Center in Blackville, South Carolina,...
The expression of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus comes from a combination of factors.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
In 2022, losses to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus were estimated at 7% across the Southeastern production area. It’s as great a loss as...
How much money will be available for agriculture programs is the big question?
Changes in the new Farm Bill will mostly be about money. That was the message from Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center in...
It will take two to three years for a baseline, but much was accomplished
in the pilot program.
In 2021, the U.S. peanut industry came together to fund an effort to document, track and communicate the sustainability of U.S. peanut production,...
America’s fondness for peanuts accounts for 65% of all U.S. nut consumption. Per person, which equates to nearly eight pounds annually.
But what’s to be done with the estimated 40 million to 70 million pounds of peanut skins that are...
Texas A&M AgriLife researchers, in partnership with Chevron, aim
to develop varieties with higher oil content for lower-carbon fuel production.
⋅ BY KAY LEDBETTER ⋅
Peanut oil powered the world’s first diesel engine when it was premiered by Rudolf Diesel at the...
⋅ BY NICHOLAS DUFAULT ⋅
As the end of the peanut season approaches, there are many things that need to be done; however, do not forget to pay attention to late-season diseases. Leaf spots and rust diseases are always on...
This family farming operation uses premium disease protection and varietal resistance instead of buying more spray equipment.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
A challenging year is how Joey Williams and his wife, Melissa, describe 2022, and they know challenging. Farming history for...
The 2019 crop was a ‘line in the sand.’ Since then, substantial focus and funding has spurred the peanut industry on to solve the aflatoxin riddle.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
For two days in late November 2021, representatives from all...
Severe drought and significant pressure from Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus are headlines of this season.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
By mid-October, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service rated the total U.S. peanut crop as 8% excellent and...
⋅ BY BOB PARKER ⋅
I believe the peanut industry has a unique opportunity to participate more fully in the peanut oil market. We are saddled with a carryout of almost 1.2 million tons versus production of 3.1 million tons or...
Early maturing varieties and reduced seeding rates still produce enough biomass for improved soil heath and pest suppression.
Just as planning for planting next year begins as soon as the crop is harvested, planning what will happen to fields in...
These cultivars meet the need for earlier maturing, high-oleic runner peanuts.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Research peanut breeding program has announced the release of two new varieties, Tamrun OL18L and Tamrun OL19, for the West Texas and South Texas...
A grouping of 70% to 75% orange, brown and black hull-scraped pod colors is a maturity level ready for digging.
⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅
Indeterminate. It means unknown, uncertain, imprecise and unclear. Unfortunately, that often describes knowing when to dig...
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