Trading in the U.S. market is relatively quiet with movement only on small quantities as buyers take a wait-and-see attitude toward the new crop. A planting intentions report was due at the end of March.
Farmers holding out on contracting...
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J. Frank McGill, affectionally known throughout the Georgia agricultural community as “Mr. Peanut,” passed away surrounded by family March 3 at age 95 in Tifton, Georgia.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1951 and a master’s...
Virtual peanut production meetings are nearly complete in preparation for the 2021 planting season. Although this format is not good for stocking up on pens, pads, hats and the yearly rain gauge, it is still useful for relaying needed...
We are now into the second month of 2021, and that means it is time for the annual Peanut Grower Variety Guide. Planting and growing conditions in 2020 pushed crop harvest late into the year. Still, peanut breeders and...
Demand increased for peanuts during the pandemic; cotton markets soured at first but are opening again.
People expect two things in the late fall in the South: the smell of freshly plowed peanuts and cotton fields that resemble snow....
2020 Crop Estimate
Peanut production is forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at 6.64 billion pounds, down 1% from the previous forecast but up 22% from the revised 2019 total of 5.47 billion pounds.
Harvested area is expected to total...
The Georgia Peanut Farm Show and Conference, originally scheduled for Jan. 20-21, 2021, at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Conference Center, has been postponed until January 2022.
This decision, in consultation with the University of Georgia, was made in...
The Stripling Family Foundation of Camilla, Georgia, has been recognized with the Epsilon Sigma Phi National Friend of Extension award for their many years of philanthropic and personal support of agriculture programs in Georgia.
Charles and Patsy Stripling credited Charles’...
At a county peanut and cotton production meeting in January, University of Georgia Extension peanut specialist Scott Monfort brought up the subject of stress. The UGA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences made the topic of rural mental health...
The Georgia Cotton Commission, Georgia Peanut Commission and the University of Georgia Extension Cotton and Peanut Teams, will co-sponsor a virtual research field day Wednesday, Sept. 9.
The virtual field day will begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at noon....
University of Georgia faculty will share the latest research on cotton, soybeans, corn and other southeast Georgia crops during the annual Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center Field Day held online Aug. 12.
Research and Extension faculty will present current...
A well-known scientist in the peanut industry, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences research pathologist Albert Culbreath has been named a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society.
The society grants this honor to members in acknowledgement of...
• By Mike Mulvaney and Scott Tubbs •
It’s the time of year when producers often face decisions involving replanting peanut. This is always a tough call — there are many factors to consider including should the existing crop be...
Two prominent faculty members of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Albert Culbreath and Harald Scherm, have been named 2020 Fellows of the American Phytopathological Society.
The society grants the honor to a current APS member...
Favorable weather could signal an earlier onset of fungal disease.
• By Amanda Huber •
It was the second warmest March on record across the globe according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For the Southeast, the area was...
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