The peanut industry continues in a wait-and-see mode as the startup of 2024 adds more unknowns to the market mix. Peanut producers and industry leaders agree that since cotton and corn prices were not as profitable, peanuts would likely...
Ag Committee Approves Farm Bill
The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture voted to pass the Farm Bill, titled “The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024” in a 33-21 vote. Four democrats – Reps. Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Yadira Caraveo...
The Weed Science Society of America routinely surveys leaders in weed science to identify important weed research topics for the next five to 10 years. You can read the article on page 16, but what the survey found is...
⋅ BY RYAN McGEENEY ⋅
From the time he was a child on his parents' cattle ranch, Zachary Treadway knew he wanted a life in agriculture. As the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's newest agronomist, he'll have the...
Nutrien Ag Solutions announces the acquisition of Suncor Energy’s AgroScience assets, which consists of several patented and patent pending technologies in the area of biocontrol. This new biocontrol technology is expected to introduce chlorin-based photosensitizer to the global market...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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