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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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...
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