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News Briefs: November 2022

2022 U.S. Peanut Crop  Peanut production is forecast at 5.85 million pounds or 2.9 million tons in 2022, down 6% from the previous estimate and down 8% from 2021. USDA made this prediction in September. Planted area at 1.46 million acres...

A Long And Storied History 

A theme running through this issue of The Peanut Grower is the history of peanuts. Part of that history goes back to the 1900 Paris Exposition and the introduction of the diesel engine. Although Rudolf Diesel had used everything from crude...

LSU AgCenter study: Feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers $91 million annually

⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ From rooting up crops to destroying farm infrastructure, Louisiana’s growing population of feral hogs causes $91.1 million in damage to agricultural and timber lands each year, according to a newly released LSU AgCenter estimate. Based on...

Mississippi peanut crop harvest begins, looks good

⋅ BY SUSAN M. COLLINS-SMITH ⋅ MSU Extension Service Mississippi peanut producers should see an average year in terms of crop quality and yield. "We'll have a good year, an average year, for peanuts," said Brendan Zurweller, peanut specialist with the Mississippi...

Crop harvest in Mississippi is going well, average yields

⋅ BY BONNIE A. COBLENTZ ⋅ MSU Extension Service “Snow” appearing on the sides of highways and bare ground visible for miles is a sure indication that row crop harvest in Mississippi is well underway. As of early October, the majority of the...

Women in Ag Conference set Oct. 18 in Hereford

⋅ BY KAY LEDBETTER ⋅ The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a Women in Ag Conference on Oct. 18 at the Hereford Civic Center, 1001 W. 15th St., Hereford. The program is coordinated by the agency’s offices in Castro,...

CAES investigates potential of spray drones in agriculture

⋅ BY CLAIRE SANDERS ⋅ It’s a familiar sight for many — a ground sprayer slowly making rounds in a field, applying pesticides to row crops to give producers the best chance of protecting crops from pests and seeing high...

Clemson Extension announces Women in Ag Conference

Women are a critical part of farm and ranch operations in South Carolina and to help move this industry into the future, the Clemson Cooperative Extension Service is holding its first-ever South Carolina Women in Agriculture Conference. This inaugural conference...

Farmers for Tomorrow fundraiser set Oct. 19 to support aspiring farmers

⋅ By John Lovett ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture The Center for Arkansas Farms and Food will hold a fundraising event 5-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 to support the Farmers for Tomorrow fund, a new program to help Farm School and Apprenticeship...

Fire, flood, serve as crop residue management tools for rice, corn, other crops.

Farmers have several options for managing residue: Fire, flood and tillage, or some combination of the three. Use of each depends on what the production system used in the current season, the weather after harvest and what crop a...

Conservation Easements: Save the Date for Three Part Series, 12:30pm September 7, 14, 21

⋅ ROBERT BRANAN ⋅ Please join this series of webinars on September 7, 14 and 21 at 12:30 p.m. for an update on conservation easements and their potential impact on land disposition (e.g. estate planning and farm succession decisions). Robert...

DigitalAg@Farms Program

⋅ By Bruno P. Lena, Brenda V. Ortiz, Luan Pereira de Oliveira, Guilherme Morata, Mailson Freire de Oliveira, Franciele Morlin, Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Pierce McClendon, Megan Thurmond, and Yin Bao ⋅ Efforts to put digital technologies and site-specific crop management practices...

Clemson announces 2022 Peanut Field Day

New varieties, modern technology, disease and weed management, as well as fertilizer requirements and economics are on the agenda for the 2022 Clemson Extension Peanut Field Day Sept. 8 at the Edisto Research and Education Center (REC) in Blackville,...

Scotty Raines, who grows peanuts, cotton and other crops, is named Georgia Farmer of the Year

Scotty Raines didn’t grow up on a farm, but his father kept a large garden at home. His mother, a beautician, had a beauty shop behind their house. So Scotty began his agrarian career by selling produce from the...

Cotton and peanut farmer, Keith Allen, is South Carolina Farmer of the Year 2022

Betty Allen Farms in Latta, South Carolina, has been in Keith Allen’s family for nearly 200 proverbial lean and fat years. Growing from a modest holding in 1837 to 3800 acres today, the farm has experienced everything from near...

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