Protecting seed against the myriad of possible pathogens takes a good chemistry combination. · By Amanda Huber · Seed treatments are one of the fundamental inputs available for peanut. The importance of this first line of defense was reinforced in 2020...

Going After Aflatoxin Aspergillus flavus presents a significant threat to the U.S. peanut industry. The expression of A. flavus, aflatoxin, impacts every aspect of the peanut supply chain. Even in a low-aflatoxin year, such as 2020, costs range into the...

Check out the 2022 Peanut Grower Pest Management Guide. It includes updates to the Disease Risk Index as well as Insect Management and Weed Management sections.

There was good news and bad news at the 6th Annual South Carolina Ag Outlook Conference. The good news: sale prices for commodities are trending up. Unfortunately, so are the costs associated with producing them. Walt Morgan, crop insurance agent...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Peanuts again proved to be a popular, if somewhat niche, investment for Arkansas growers in 2021. Andy Vangilder, agriculture and natural resources Extension educator for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said that as...

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 Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Embassy...

The 2021 Peanut Variety Trial preliminary yield data is now available on the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Official Variety Trials website (https://www.mafes.msstate.edu/variety-trials/includes/crops/peanuts.asp). The MAFES Official Variety Trials examine yield as well as other data such as maturity date,...

The LSU AgCenter is hosting a Winter Crop Meeting on Dec. 15 at the Scott Center on the Macon Ridge Research Station in Winnsboro, Louisiana. The goal is to give row crop producers information on strategies to diversify current...

When University of Georgia peanut pathologist Bob Kemerait does something, he does it wholeheartedly. A passionate advocate for producers both near his academic home at the University of Georgia Tifton campus and around the world, Kemerait describes himself as “a...

Letter Asks For Help With EU In a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, the U.S. Peanut Federation together with Reps. David Scott, D-Ga., and Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., requested help in restoring trade with the European Union. The letter read...

Peanut markets have improved this year, and the potential prospects for a profit are also positive. However, Mother Nature had other ideas and kept chipping away at maximum production. The weather interruptions limited general trading, and eventually buyers held up...

Rotation, Peanut Rx and fungicides are a good way to start planning for disease in 2022. Hosted by Alabama Cooperative Extension, University of Florida/ Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences Extension and the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the tri-state...

In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revoked the insecticide chlorpyrifos’ tolerances for all commodities. It was not a surprise. University of Georgia Extension entomologist Mark Abney and others Extension personnel had been warning producers about this possibility. In a...

New calculator helps producers figure liquid fertilizer flow rate, injection pump settings and a schedule for center-pivot fertigation. The days of manually calculating numbers on spreadsheets to determine how much liquid fertilizer should be used to fertigate row crops may...

Above-average rainfall and eye-popping armyworm infestations are part of the story in 2021. • By Amanda Huber • Although the ending has yet to be written on the 2021 season, the beginning and middle are all about more-than-average rains, armyworms and...