AU-NPL 17 Helps Spread Risk Planting season is just around the corner, and I feel that we might be able to get an earlier start this year as opposed to past years since Easter is earlier and we seem to...

“Deer are the new feral hogs,” is a sentiment heard from many Georgia farmers in the past few years. Damage from an increasing number of deer is impacting growers across multiple crops and causing economic losses into the thousands...

Questions and answers about calcium, a critical element needed in the top 4 inches of soil. As a legume, peanuts use the symbiotic relationship with bacteria added as an inoculant to fix atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by the...

Three of these critical problems can only be tackled at planting. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ One of the greatest mystery novelist’s later works in her series of Hercule Poirot stories is The Big Four. In this story, Agatha Christie has...

Check Soil Temperatures Before Planting The 2023 growing season was another hot and dry year in Texas. Having one drought year is tough enough, but two consecutive years of drought made our lives very difficult. Under such challenging environmental conditions...

Early pest control and vigorous growth from the start pay dividends all season long.  As unpredictable as peanuts can be, it’s a relief to have options with planting fast approaching. “We’ll probably be planting sometime in May,” says Eddie Polin,...

Remember the lessons learned but stick with proven methods this season. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ The best thing I can tell you in 2024, says University of Georgia Extension agronomist Scott Monfort, is “Don’t use 2023 as a measuring stick....

A ‘roller coaster’ season at least has some high points. Drought continues to linger in patches of the state, but Texas agricultural producers face much better cropping outlooks going into spring says Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. In late September...

Nearly everyone agrees that peanuts have a great story to tell. It’s a nutritious food and good source of affordable protein. The crop fits into a rotation with other crops. The water footprint to grow peanuts is much less...

The peanut market is quiet and has been all winter. Trade considers this market very firm, especially for any needed shelled mediums and jumbo runners. There does seem to be a shortage of jumbo runners as the outturn this...

With production matching demand and little competition for acres, peanut planting is expected to be about the same in 2024. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Before looking ahead to 2024’s economic outlook, it is helpful to take a look at what...

Opposition Raised To Changing The Reference Price Farm groups have met with members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees in Washington D.C. and urged leaders to raise reference prices in the new Farm Bill since costs of production...

  This month, I continue my talk with National Peanut Board president and CEO Ryan Lepicier. Q: What is your philosophy on NPB-sponsored production research? Since 2001, we’ve spent more than $45 million on production research, which is critical for...

Mizzou’s new Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center will enhance research, education and outreach in emerging digital technologies for farming. Nearly one-third of Missouri's economy is tied to agriculture. That’s why the state’s flagship land-grant institution, the University of Missouri,...

Estimates show Texas is in sixth place in the United States for organic agriculture with more than 300,000 acres. Peanuts are one of the crops grown, specifically because the West Texas climate does not favor fungal diseases that make...