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Peanut Pointers: June 2024

Meeting The Calcium Need For Good Pod Fill Many growers are trying to reduce their input costs. In trying to do so, questioning the need for gypsum and/or considering using something cheaper or easier is always part of the equation....

New Variety Honors Avid Grower

Named for Arnold ‘Arnie’ Forrester, the University of Florida released a high-yield potential cultivar with normal oleic oil chemistry. If ‘Arnie’ the peanut cultivar is half as good of a peanut variety as Arnie Forrester was a man, it will be...

Thank You, Dr. Brandenburg

Your contributions to the industry and especially the peanut growers of North Carolina are sincerely appreciated. ⋅ BY DAVID JORDAN ⋅ North Carolina State University Extension Agronomist Editor’s Note: North Carolina State University Extension entomologist Rick Brandenburg is retiring in 2024...

Season Update

More frequent and heavier rainfall leads to more Valor injury and earlier disease pressure. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ 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...

Peanut Breeding Innovator Inducted Into The Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame

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...

Well Deserved Recognition

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...

Precision Ag On A New Level

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...

Peanut Yield Trends

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...

With Planting Underway, Markets Are Still Quiet

The peanut market is very quiet. Currently, raw-shelled peanuts are available from 68 to 72 counts, and buyers come in as needed for spot sales. The market seems to believe that supplies will be below average causing the price...

News Briefs: June 2024

House, Senate Release Farm Bill Priorities In the first full week of May, both the Senate and House agriculture committees released priorities and proposals on the Farm Bill. On the Senate side, agriculture committee chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) says their version...

Stumbling On A Theme

This issue of Peanut Grower developed a theme quite innocently enough. As an industry, we are pretty good at recognizing both the pioneers and the everyday person in the trenches who bring a lot to the table for peanut...

Finding A Path Forward

Southwest Georgia peanut farmer Casey Cox Kerr discusses what drew her back to the farm and what she plans to leave for future generations. When Casey Cox Kerr was a child, she watched her dad farm while snacking on raw...

Peanut Pointers: May 2024

Know Your Seed’s Germination Percentage Planters are slowly starting to roll this week in West and Central Texas and the Rolling Plains. South Texas peanut planting will start in the next two to three weeks. By this time, producers know...

The New World Of Pesticide Use

From chlorpyrifos to dicamba, growers can’t help being confused by recent rulings. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ That courts now complicate pesticide registration and application is something growers should get used to, say University of Georgia Extension specialists. Both peanuts and...

Disease Notes

Use past problems and multiple management tools to combat pathogens in your fields. ⋅ BY NICHOLAS DUFAULT ⋅ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PLANT PATHOLOGY A review of past disease problems that affected the peanut crop offers a good look at...

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