Some unique job opportunities are currently available in the peanut industry. In case you are contemplating a change in employment, I will offer information on two possibilities. First, the top position of the National Peanut Board, that of president and...

⋅ BY TRACY COURAGE ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture The Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference has been educating Arkansas farmers and other agriculture professionals for a quarter of a century on how to use new technology and...

Check out the 2023 Peanut Grower Pest Management Guide. It includes updates to the Disease Risk Index as well as Insect Management and Weed Management sections.

Whitetail deer are a significant economic threat to row crop production in Alabama. While his specialty includes crop insect pests, Alabama Cooperative Extension System entomologist Scott Graham has been dealing with reports of deer damage and listening as growers search for...

As farmers prepare for the upcoming growing seasons, the dawning of a new year is a reminder of the new things to come. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is planning two precision agriculture workshops in February. These workshops are...

This program will help the South Carolina agricultural community develop barrier-free farming. – Dale Layfield, Clemson associate professor of agricultural education Aging and ailments limit some South Carolina farmers, but faculty and researchers at Clemson and South Carolina State universities are...

  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...