UGA researchers work to develop innovative solutions to aflatoxin contamination in peanuts ⋅ BY MARIA M. LAMEIRAS ⋅ UGA Cooperative Extension On a warm morning in mid-September, tractor-drawn peanut-digging equipment burrowed beneath the peanut vines on the first of Tift County peanut...

⋅ BY SUSAN HIMES ⋅ Texas A&M AgriLife Optional auxin training offered The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold the 2023 Southwest Texas Crop Kick-off program on Jan. 18 for Frio, Medina, Uvalde and Zavala counties. The program will be from 8 a.m.-2:30...

Variety selection, disease management and harvest timing are critical to Georgia’s peanut farmers ⋅ BY MARIA M. LAMEIRAS ⋅ From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit...

Peanut producers look back at the 2022 crop questioning what happened. King cotton was competing for land with unbelievable prices at $1.30 per pound. With inflation rampant and cost of production steadily increasing, the grower worked to reduce inputs...

Field days are an opportunity to see research plots and to learn how those findings can be applied in growers’ fields. At the 2022 peanut field day at the Clemson Edisto Research and Education Center in Blackville, South Carolina,...

New Ag Committee Leader Incoming House Agriculture Chairman G.T. Thompson (R-Pa) laid out some of his top policy priorities for the Farm Bill recently. His top priority is to get the nearly half-trillion-dollar legislation out on time and avoid extending...

In 2022, the Sustainable U.S. Peanuts Initiative platform was ready for enrollment and collection of grower data from the prior season. Although findings have been released, some of which you can read about on page 20, one year of...

The expression of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus comes from a combination of factors. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ In 2022, losses to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus were estimated at 7% across the Southeastern production area. It’s as great a loss as...

How much money will be available for agriculture programs is the big question? Changes in the new Farm Bill will mostly be about money. That was the message from Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center in...

It will take two to three years for a baseline, but much was accomplished in the pilot program. In 2021, the U.S. peanut industry came together to fund an effort to document, track and communicate the sustainability of U.S. peanut production,...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture The droughty summer of 2022 made harvest both easier and more challenging for Arkansas’ peanut farmers. “The hot summer conditions suppressed flowering and thus suppressed pod set for several weeks...

Crop input prices are rising and the agricultural markets are in constant flux. Producers need reliable information as they look toward 2023. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s farm and agribusiness management team–in collaboration with the Auburn University College of...

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold the District 8 Farm and Ranch Seminar on Dec. 8 in Waco. The event will be from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. at McLennan Community College Emergency Services Building, 7601 Steinbeck Bend Road. The cost is...

Alabama producers can brush up on best management practices and prepare for the upcoming growing seasons at the 2022 Alabama Row Crops Short Course. The course will be held Dec. 13 and 14 at the Hotel at Auburn University and...

⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ LSU AgCenter When drought conditions set in across Louisiana this summer, many farmers resorted to irrigation to try to save their crops. While it helped preserve yields and quality in some cases, the sharp uptick in...