Thursday, March 12, 2026

Market Watch

Will Fertilizer Costs Lead To More Peanut Acres?

2021 was a good year for peanuts. Crop quality was excellent compared to the past couple years with more Seg. 2s and Seg. 3s. Farmer-stock prices were higher this year with some incentives, and shelled prices were higher and...

Infrastructure Investment Signals A Bright Future

The peanut market is quiet as firmer prices and lack of demand remains. Most analysts believe that markets will be this way through the New Year as shellers and farmers prepare for new crop contracting. The industry is ending...

Shipping Crisis Affecting Agriculture Exports, Peanut Included

Peanut markets have improved this year, and the potential prospects for a profit are also positive. However, Mother Nature had other ideas and kept chipping away at maximum production. The weather interruptions limited general trading, and eventually buyers held up...

Cool Conditions And Quiet Markets Start The 2021 Crop

One would describe the peanut market as quiet, very quiet. Buyers have booked enough peanuts to cover their needs for now, and most have withdrawn from the market waiting on a more accurate planted acreage number for 2021. Farmers...

Market Watch

Cool Conditions Push Southeast Planting Later Last year, it was predicted that the coronavirus would be the biggest threat to the global economy ever. It was also thought the peanut industry would suffer from lost markets including closed schools and...

Consumption Still Strong In All Categories

Farmers are ready to get back to work in the fields. Fortunately, the nature of farm work meant that it was able to continue through the pandemic mostly as normal. Both farmers and industry organizations are anxious to return...

Surveys Indicate Similar Or Slight Reduction In Peanut Acres

Trading in the U.S. market is relatively quiet with movement only on small quantities as buyers take a wait-and-see attitude toward the new crop. A planting intentions report was due at the end of March. Farmers holding out on contracting...

Rotational Crop Prices Bring Market Positives

The 2021 season opens with lots of positive trends. The pandemic is winding down as vaccine distribution continues. Row-crop farm prices have increased going into planting season with cotton near 85 cents per pound and corn over $5 per...

Thanks To Other Crop Prices, The Market May Firm Up

As the pandemic continues, the peanut market has been relatively quiet for growers and shellers. Buyers have good coverage for 2021, and shellers are not being aggressive to sell with higher prices looming. But changes in the peanut market are...

A Retaliatory Tariff Affects The European Market

As COVID-19 spikes a second time, the European Union has announced a 25% tariff on U.S. peanuts and other products. The tariff went into effect on Nov. 10, 2020, as authorized by the World Trade Organization, but the market...

Consumption Soars, But A Big Crop Is Expected

When COVID-19 hit, it took a while to understand the pandemic and the impact it would have on the peanut industry. With the economy shut down and families forced to stay at home, peanut butter and peanut snacks started...

Carryforward Almost Gone As PB, Snacks Feed Families In Quarantine

Stress in agriculture has never been greater. Two major hurricanes, Irma and Michael, quality problems and now germination issues, low commodity prices, COVID-19 pandemic, riots and unrest in cities, talk of food shortages, a devastating court ruling on a...

Markets Are Quiet As Some Buying Segments Remain Closed

The ongoing spread of the coronavirus has become one of the biggest threats to the global economy. The agricultural economy was already suffering from low commodity prices and they remain low as major markets are closed to potential buying....

A Good Quality Crop Is Needed In 2020

COVID-19 is bringing more stress and worry to the agriculture picture. If there is a positive in this, it is that demand for peanuts and peanut butter will increase as more people are eating at home. The easy-to-use, nutritious,...

Domestic Usage Takes Big Jump In First Quarter

Never before has the U.S. peanut market been in such disarray with so many unusual circumstances as it is in 2020. The peanut market continues to rise with very thin trading volume. Prices for peanuts testing negative for aflatoxin...

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