USDA Announces 2023 Peanut Loan Rates U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation recently announced 2023-crop loan rates for four types of peanuts. The rates take effect Aug. 1, 2023, the beginning of the peanut crop year. Eligible producers can obtain...

Indeterminate. As an adjective, it means uncertain in extent, amount or nature; not definite; inconclusive; unable to be predicted, calculated or deduced. Peanuts are an indeterminate plant, and all those adjectives pretty much describe trying to nail down crop...

Be Timely With Fungicides Hopefully, everyone has finished up planting or is almost done by now. I know we didn’t get an early start to planting this year because of the cooler temperatures in April, which has seemed to be...

USDA’s Southeast Climate Hub developed commodity guides, including peanuts, to help in preparation and recovery from hurricanes. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Much of the peanut belt has another distinction, that of being coastal states open to the threat of hurricanes....

Scouting is the best way to discover this and other yield-robbing pest problems.  ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Peanuts are popping up in fields, and scouting should begin in earnest to get ahead of any potential pest problems.  “Last year was a...

How does this legislation affect you, and what can you do to help? ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Figuring out how the Endangered Species Act affects the agricultural industry can be both complex and frustrating. The ESA of 1973 was...

Finding the right varieties to fit their season is a task that has paid off for Oklahoma producers.  ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ Rogers and Hammerstein didn’t mention peanuts in their song “Oklahoma!” from the beloved musical and movie of the...

The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management and Credit held a hearing on Tuesday, April 26, entitled “Producer Perspectives on the 2023 Farm Bill.” Representing the U.S. Peanut Federation was Daniel McMillan of Southern Grace...

Cooler-than-normal temperatures at peanut planting time have also cooled off the peanut market.  At the farmer and buying point level, discussions have centered around the acreage estimate, cost of production, prices of competing crops, cost of producing competing crops and...

No Better Return On Investment Than The Farm Bill The Farm Bill process kicked off in February with the release of the Congressional Budget Office baseline, which identifies the expected cost for farm programs over the next 10 years. It...

It’s time again for another Farm Bill. Like birthdays, it seems to come around faster than it did some years ago.  Besides being another opportunity to get in front of our elected officials and remind them of the importance of...

⋅ BY DREW VIGUET ⋅ NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LAW CENTER Years of controversy, recent litigation and amended regulation of agricultural pesticides are changing and molding the farming landscape, including for the Mid-South region of the U.S. The National Agricultural Law Center’s 10th Annual...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on draft guidance to improve the efficiency of EPA’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) analyses for new pesticide active ingredient applications and active ingredients undergoing registration review. This guidance, when...

After Making A Stand, Assess Gypsum Needs Planting season is underway! Two of the most important points to remember, as seed are going into the ground, are germination and seed storage. First, ask for the percent germination of each lot...

By efficiently collecting large amounts of data, drones help guide advances in peanut breeding. A team of faculty in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is part of an award-winning, multistate project that has helped accelerate the use...