Even though Alabama increased peanut acreage to 195,000 acres in 2025, we were able to harvest them relatively quickly due to the open weather this fall. Surprisingly, with the drier fall, there was a considerable amount of late-season leaf spot across the lower state. However, the dry weather did make digging the crop more challenging.
When the rain stopped this past August, it was just what we needed for the earlier-planted peanuts and the cotton crop. The later crop of peanuts obviously needed more rain to finish filling out the pods and grade. The grades were still low in the beginning of harvest in that upper 60s – lower 70s range. We had to continue to leave those first peanuts in the ground for an extended period to get them to mature and grade in the 70s. Thankfully, as we continued to harvest the crop, the grades picked up and most everyone graded considerably higher than last year with most of their crop grading in the mid 70s except for the late crop where grades fell back off due to the late dry weather.
The yields were all over the board across the state, but they were considerably higher than the past two years. We certainly needed that this year with the state average estimated around 3,400 lbs. per acre.
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