⋅ 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...

⋅ 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...

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 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...

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...

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are proud to announce BASF Agricultural Solutions as the organization’s newest national sponsor in the precision agriculture and conservation sector. The organizations are poised to deliver new on-farm sustainability program in the Texas Panhandle. Collaborating...

As we move into this point in the season, we need to address issues associated with weeds, insects and disease. In many instances, timing of control for multiple pests coincides well enough that pesticide tankmixes can be effective.  When we...

Early maturing varieties and reduced seeding rates still produce enough biomass for improved soil heath and pest suppression.  Just as planning for planting next year begins as soon as the crop is harvested, planning what will happen to fields in...

These cultivars meet the need for earlier maturing, high-oleic runner peanuts.   The Texas A&M AgriLife Research peanut breeding program has announced the release of two new varieties, Tamrun OL18L and Tamrun OL19, for the West Texas and South Texas...

A grouping of 70% to 75% orange, brown and black hull-scraped pod colors is a maturity level ready for digging.  ⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅ Indeterminate. It means unknown, uncertain, imprecise and unclear. Unfortunately, that often describes knowing when to dig...

Stay on top of scouting this season as pests and diseases seem to be striking earlier.  ⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅ Planting conditions around the peanut belt varied from cool and dry to rain delays and drought. In Florida, it was...

Fungicide applications at this point often involve levels of disease and projected digging date. ⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅ Late peanut season may seem like a race to the finish. Unfortunately, it is often a race between diseases, such as leaf...

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade held a hearing June 9, 2022, on “Agricultural Trade: Priorities and Issues Facing America’s Farmers.” Karla Baker Thompson, producer from Camilla, Georgia, represented the U.S. Peanut Federation and...

The peanut market is trending higher on extremely thin trading. Current raw-shelled peanuts are available in the high 50s. With all of the uncertainty in the economy and questions about the 2022 crop, shellers are not rushing to make...

Report Acres By Mid-Month The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency policy requires that producers participating in programs submit an annual report regarding all croplands used on their farms. This includes the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage...