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...
⋅ 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...
⋅ 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,...
⋅ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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