Warm weather, pesticide shortages and significant acreage plantedto peanuts could spell increased problems for producers. By Robert C. Kemerait, Jr., Extension plant pathologist, University of Georgia If the 2017 field season was any indication, disease and nematode management issues will continue...

Making plans for the 2018 peanut marketing year will be difficult. All markets are aware that we have a few too many peanuts. The U.S. peanut crop for 2017/18 was revised down 2 percent in the November Crop Production...

Farm Bill Landing Page Ahead of the 2018 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) announced the launch of a new online resource that can be accessed through the committee’s current website, https://agriculture.house.gov/farmbill. This landing page is...

It’s hard to get through the holiday season without gaining a little extra weight, and it’s not just the Christmas cookies and treats, but also turkey and cornbread dressing and gravy — yum! The fruitcake is certainly safe with...

Imagine what peanut farming would be like had a group of farmers not come together to create the National Peanut Board. Without that reinvestment of more than $30 million back into peanut production research, what would peanut farming be...

The 2017 growing season is slowly coming to an end with Georgia growers producing another high-yielding crop with remarkable quality. Like every year, growers faced many obstacles to produce this crop. The planting season had its issues with fluctuating...

Driving too quickly can lead to significant losses when digging peanuts, according to a recent study by Clemson University agricultural engineer Kendall Kirk. Farmers often push digger speeds to save time or to outrace inclement weather, but driving too fast...

Aspergillus crown rot disease is on the rise in Georgia peanut fields, and University of Georgia researchers are working to pinpoint why. At present, university scientists recommend that farmers encountering this problem in their fields stop saving seed from...

Information on your peanuts sent directly to you from The Seam. By Amanda Huber The Seam, a provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, recently launched new business intelligence tools geared to the peanut industry. The tools will provide peanut producers...

Deere Offers Hurricane Support Deere & Company made a $1 million cash donation to support Habitat Hammers Back, a long-term recovery initiative organized by Habitat for Humanity International to help repair and rebuild communities ravaged by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and...

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently announced that more than $9.6 billion in payments would be made to producers through the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC), Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Conservation Reserve (CRP) programs. The United States Department of Agriculture...

Good yields are expected across the Carolinas and in Virginia. By Amanda Huber Crop conditions from South Carolina, through its northern neighbor and into Virginia were good this year with only a few problems here and there. Marie Balota, associate professor and...

Wow. What a peanut crop! It is difficult to be critical of over production knowing that the world needs your nutritious product to help solve hunger. One in every nine people goes to bed hungry each night. One cannot...

Blanched Peanuts Reclassified After diligent work from the American Peanut Council, the World Customs Organization has determined that blanched peanuts should be considered as raw product and will be placed under the tariff classification code 12.02 where other raw peanuts...

For the past several years, those of us living in a coastal state were plenty happy with predictions of hurricanes that never came to pass. This year, my luck ran out as Irma seemed determined to make up for...