University of Georgia agricultural economists offer the ‘2025 Georgia Ag Forecast Peanut Situation And Outlook.’ The year 2024 brought unique challenges for peanut producers across the United States. In Georgia, the season began with delays because of a wet spring,...

An American Peanut Council delegation traveled to Thailand in early February as part of the Agriculture Department’s trade mission to expand agricultural exports and strengthen trade ties in Southeast Asia. “The peanut industry is excited to participate in this important...

The peanut market mystery begins again. How many acres will be planted in peanuts this season? Peanut leaders are urging caution. Another 10% increase in acres is likely to oversupply the market for 2025-26. The decision to plant peanuts...

Awards Highlight Georgia Farm Show Peanut growers from around Georgia gathered at the Georgia Peanut Farm Show & Conference on the University of Georgia’s Tifton Campus in January. More than 1,500 participants had the opportunity to learn about research, products...

It’s a simple fact of life that we all need something to look forward to. Whatever that “something” is, it provides a crucial mental lift that offers you a respite from today’s reality. That something in peanut production may...

Mahindra Launches 11th Annual Military Salute Giveaway to Thank Our Military Mahindra Ag North America (MAgNA) announced the return of an exciting tradition: the annual Mahindra Military Salute Giveaway. This year’s giveaway features a Mahindra 1120 tractor with a loader and...

In what I consider the golden age of great Saturday morning cartoons, when a villain threatened to disrupt peace and harmony on the planet, a call was made to the Hall of Justice and the Super Friends assembled a...

Variety selection is one of the most important decisions farmers make all year. Today’s varieties offer multiple levels of disease resistance as well as possible root knot nematode resistance and other important traits. The best variety choice is always...

Researchers take proactive measures to protect the U.S. peanut industry from this devastating fungal disease. Peanut smut, a soilborne fungal disease caused by Thecaphora frezzii, was first described in 1962 infecting wild peanut in Brazil. The disease did not appear...

For U.S. agricultural exporters, the past four years held many challenges, pandemic disruptions, wars, transportation troubles and higher costs, rising farmer input costs, weather devastation, weak export market economies, strength of the U.S. dollar and continued uncertainty in the...

United States Representative Austin Scott, Tifton, Georgia, said it best, “The economy in rural America starts and stops with the American farmer. Amid the deafening noise inside political echo chambers and ceaseless squabbling of Congress is one truth that...

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Congress Provides Economic, Disaster Assistance On Dec. 21, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 10545 by a vote of 366-34 that included a continuing resolution for FY25 appropriations funding, a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill, $10...

⋅ BY REBEKAH HALL ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture LeadAR, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s leadership program, is accepting applications for its next class of leaders. The in-depth learning experience covers economic and social issues...

The Louisiana Agricultural Technology & Management Conference sponsored by the Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association will be held Feb. 12-14, 2025, at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, Louisiana. In addition to the general sessions where presentations such as the Endangered Species...