Down on the family peanut farm, there is much unhappiness. Commodity prices are the lowest in two decades; peanut contracts are at or below the cost of production, and that’s if you can find one. Input costs were higher...
Farming may seem to be a solitary occupation, and while producers do spend long hours in the field by themselves, every producer knows there is a team of people he works with to be successful. There is the crop...
Crop Insurance Update
The 2015 crop is the first year that peanut producers could insure their crop with the same options offered for other crops. Peanut revenue insurance options were introduced through the cooperative efforts of AgriLogic Consulting, Georgia Peanut...
Profitability involves putting all the pieces together in a timely manner to bring about a quality product that yields above what is needed to cover costs. From planting through harvest, there is a set schedule of management steps that...
With few exceptions, I have been on the Georgia Peanut Tour every year since the early 90s. is year stood out as particularly good for the opportunities to gather new information and be reminded of information known, but...
What does the coming season hold for you? How can you prepare for success? What production management strategies and tools can help increase your yield?
Here’s what you’ll discover in this issue of The Peanut Grower Inoculant Guide:
The economics of...
Weather threatens crop yields in the East, while the West starts harvest with a month of good field conditions.
By Amanda Huber
With a crop that was good in many areas, fair in others most of the season, the weather...
One small peanut seed contains all of the potential for a top-yielding crop of healthy, delicious and nutritious peanuts. However, planting the seed is not enough to achieve all of that potential. Producers must make sound planting decisions prior...
Q. What is the benefit of using an inoculant?
A. As a legume crop, peanuts can supply their own nitrogen, but only if rhizobia bacterium is available in the root zone and in close proximity to the emerging seedling to...
Franklin Electric Co., Inc., has expanded its proven line of VR Series vertical, stainless steel multi-stage pumps that deliver clean water under pressure for a wide range of applications. These booster pumps are now available in 3, 5, 9,...
Now with two rotors, the Colombo peanut combine offers the potential to harvest more acres of whole, clean peanuts.
Colombo North America came on the U.S. peanut landscape nearly 10 years ago. Since then, their axial-flow combines garnered the attention...
Some disease and insect problems can only be found at digging.
Editor’s Note: Pod rot and burrower bug symptoms can really only be found after peanuts are dug. Taking an assessment of any disease or insect symptomology will help with...
Product labels offer two rate recommendations. Which should you use?
By J. Ferrell and R. Leon, University of Florida, and E. Prostko, University of Georgia
Acrop oil adjuvant is an essential part of many herbicide applications. When conditions are dry or...
Let me pull back the curtain a little bit on One Grower Publishing in hopes that what I tell you will encourage you to embrace that new technology you have been thinking about or at least embolden you to...
JASON WOODWARD
Texas Agri-Life Extension
Plant Pathologist
Managing Late-Planted Peanuts
The pendulum has swung the other direction as to drought conditions in the Southwestern United States. As of June 1, only 20 percent of the region was characterized as abnormally dry. This is...
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