Thursday, April 2, 2026

NPB’s ‘New’ CEO Is A Familiar Face

Longtime senior vice president Ryan Lepicier is named president after executive search; Parker recognized as food allergy champion. After a nationwide executive search, the National Peanut Board recently announced Ryan Lepicier as the new president and CEO beginning Jan. 1,...

Domestic, Export Markets Move In Positive Direction

The 2023 peanut season had many unusual challenges that tested producer’s management skills. In the Southeast and Virginia-Carolina regions, the season started with some dry, some wet, but overall cool conditions. The slow start had seed officials and others...

News Briefs: November 2023

Farm Bill Extension Likely During a recent visit to Washington D.C., representatives from the U.S. Peanut Federation met with key members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as well as senior agricultural staff, to discuss issues...

Research Review: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

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Cotton Varieties Made for Peanut Country

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ For farmers planting cotton near peanuts, one simple change makes management a whole lot easier. Throughout the South, cotton and peanuts are a common rotation with fields planted near one another — sometimes across the turnrow....

Money Well Spent

You don’t put all your eggs into one basket or your farm into one crop. It’s a dangerous gamble that could lose you everything. Following that same thought, you don’t put all your wild species in one place or...

EPA extends comment period on herbicide proposal

⋅ BY JULIE TOMASCIK ⋅ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the comment period to Oct. 22 for its proposed herbicide strategy. The agency released the proposal in late July and extended the comment period after several groups, including the American Farm...

Extension specialist bringing expanded drone, imaging education to Arkansas agents, growers

⋅ BY RYAN McGEENEY ⋅ UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE Imagery provided by satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles — commonly known as drones — is already changing the way producers farm their crops. As this technology becomes more prevalent,...

PARP offers opportunity for additional relief to underserved farms with pandemic-related losses

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ U of A SYSTEM DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE Underserved farmers who suffered pandemic-related losses have until July 14 to apply for funds from the Pandemic Assistance Relief Program, or PARP. PARP was created to expand the existing pandemic...

Peanut Pointers: July 2023

Scout Weekly To Adjust Plans Depending On Moisture Level We have received good precipitation through May, which has reduced drought intensity in the Southwest. However, the West Texas region remains under drought conditions. This region has received only an inch...

Flavor Testing And More From The Food Technology Side Of Peanut Breeding

Lisa Dean is a food technologist with the USDA ARS Food Science and Market Quality and Handling Research Unit in Raleigh, North Carolina. She and her team investigate nutritional content, flavor attributes and shelf-life to maintain and improve the...

A New Era In Peanut Breeding

Using modern techniques, the NCSU program will bring cultivars with improved genetics to the market more quickly and efficiently.  ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Four years ago, Jeff Dunne took over the helm of peanut breeding at North Carolina State University...

Work On Burrower Bug Continues

The UGA entomology team adds to the knowledge base of this subterranean pest while looking for risk factors and control options. The peanut burrower bug is a tricky pest. Not only is an infestation invisible in a field from above...

Finding The Right Fit

It can take years of research to not only bring a fungicide to the market, but also to find how it will fit in growers’ programs. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Abraham Fulmer, who spent seven years as a graduate student...

A Wait-And-See Attitude Envelops The Market

Peanut producers experienced an unusually rough start in getting the crop in the ground. In the Southeast, dry and relatively cool temperatures caused peanuts to emerge slowly. One Extension specialist says that the lack of heat units in the...

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