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...
In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued their proposed rule to define what it means to be “actively engaged” in farming and, therefore, eligible to receive federal farm payments. After review by the Southern Peanut Farmers Federation...
The U.S. peanut industry has experienced an unusual start for 2015. Seed quantities were good and quality was mostly good as well. There were some problems getting accurate information on germination and the process was slower than normal. Weather...
Sharing knowledge and experience will help on the frontlines of resistance management.
A group of agricultural advisers are leading the charge against resistance. Syngenta founded the Resistance Fighter of the Year Leadership Program in 2009 to recognize agricultural advisers for...
Know how to prepare equipment and keep it in top form for maximum harvest efficiency.
Use the following checklists provided by Kelley Manufacturing Co. to prepare inverters for digging and combines for harvest before the season starts. Use the list...
The Georgia Federal Station Inspection Service has initiated a project with the goal of improving and enhancing grading equipment and procedures that have been in use for the past 70 years while continuing to achieve the same end result....
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