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Peanut Protectors

  UGA researchers work to develop innovative solutions to aflatoxin contamination in peanuts ⋅ BY MARIA M. LAMEIRAS ⋅ UGA Cooperative Extension On a warm morning in mid-September, tractor-drawn peanut-digging equipment burrowed beneath the peanut vines on the first of Tift County peanut...

The Fight Is On

The 2019 crop was a ‘line in the sand.’ Since then, substantial focus and funding has spurred the peanut industry on to solve the aflatoxin riddle. ⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ For two days in late November 2021, representatives from all...

Teaming Up For A Better Peanut

A collaboration between Mars And HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will tackle drought tolerance and aflatoxin.  Partnering together, two groups hope to tackle two of the biggest threats to the peanut industry. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology—a nonprofit institute dedicated to developing and...

Anticipate And Mitigate Disease Problems

Avoid the ‘perfect storm’ situation for a leaf spot control failure.  ⋅ By Amanda Huber ⋅ Anticipating what might happen with disease pressure in your fields and providing research-based strategies to mitigate that yield destroyer are what plant pathologists do, says...

Seed Treatments: A First Line Of Defense

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...

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