Check For Active Nodulation • By Emi Kimura, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, State Extension Peanut Specialist • Peanut planting in the Southwest was delayed because of above-average rains we received in May. In typical years, we recommended checking the crop for...

The Missouri Bootheel is getting its first buying point, shelling and blanching facility. Necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the reason producers try new crops. That’s what is happening in the Missouri Bootheel. Producers looking for...

Reduce yield loss at digging with proper equipment setup and maintenance.   • By Amanda Huber • From before the first seed is planted until harvest, producers work diligently to provide all the inputs the crop needs and protect it from...

Collaboration To Evaluate Targeted Spray Technology AGCO recently announced a collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF Digital Farming and Raven Industries Inc. with the objective of evaluating targeted spraying technology. The goal is to make applications more effective and efficient...

A late-season foe came early in 2021, and a new miticide looks promising for control. • By Amanda Huber • Thrips were prevalent in many fields of late April- and May-planted peanuts. University of Georgia Extension entomologist Mark Abney says thrips...

Testing A New Grading System The Georgia Federal-State Inspection Service has been working with an industry committee to modernize the peanut grading system. The peanut program requires that all peanuts be inspected by a third party to determine quality, and...

One would describe the peanut market as quiet, very quiet. Buyers have booked enough peanuts to cover their needs for now, and most have withdrawn from the market waiting on a more accurate planted acreage number for 2021. Farmers...

Believe me when I say that vaccines are not a subject I expected to cover this month or anytime in the future. But what if it were a vaccine for peanuts against one of our most dreaded diseases —...

Friends and co-workers share thoughts and well wishes for retiring North Carolina peanut leader, Bob Sutter. North Carolina Peanut Growers Association CEO Bob Sutter is retiring at the end of July. He has been a true advocate for peanut growers...

• By Kay Ledbetter • Four Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences plant breeding program development projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture....

• By David Jordan • One important question this year is what is the yield loss with lower plant populations? This can be difficult to answer. Is it a general reduction in stand across the field or long skips or spotty...

Most Southwest peanuts have been planted, although it was delayed five to seven days because of the cold soil temperatures and rainfall. By now, herbicides applied preplant and at planting have dissipated, and new weed flushes may be observed...

Cool Conditions Push Southeast Planting Later Last year, it was predicted that the coronavirus would be the biggest threat to the global economy ever. It was also thought the peanut industry would suffer from lost markets including closed schools and...

Producers are interested in learning more about this emerging market. A new, secondary market for farmers is on the rise as a carbon commodity market gains traction in the Midwest. In addition to marketing cash crops, producers may have an...

The Memphis-based ag tech company is now working with all three peanut shelling plants opened in the past seven years. The Seam recently announced that Coastal Growers and Tifton Peanut Co. have entered into multi-year agreements for its cloud-based, peanut...