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Moye wins PPA for Lower Southeast statesJul 1, 2009 1:08 PM, By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff T.E. Moye, Jr., of Newton, Ga., says there isn’t just one key to efficient peanut production, but rather it’s a combination of several things. ... HeadlinesGeorgia crops sufferingJul 1, 2009 1:02 PM, By Brad Haire, University of Georgia After rough spring weather, the heat is on. ... Virginia Extension expands online presenceJul 1, 2009 1:00 PM, By Michael Sutphin, Virginia Tech University Virginia Cooperative Extension has revamped its online presence with a new and improved website that connects citizens with the research-based knowledge at Virginia's land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.... Peanut Profitability Award winners namedJul 1, 2009 12:06 PM, By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff This past year was probably the most interesting year growers have seen in the history of peanut production, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., and advisor for the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards.... Markets watching weatherJul 1, 2009 12:04 PM, By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer Crop prices are beginning the annual meteorological reaction. ... Livestock under heat stressJul 1, 2009 12:02 PM, By Aimee Nielson, University of Kentucky Recently Kentuckians have experienced some of the highest heat indices of the season.... Tennessee vegetable growers offer 'home grown'Jul 1, 2009 12:00 PM You may be a better nuclear physicist than Ted Smiley. ... Soybean acres still under expectationsJul 1, 2009 8:08 AM, By Elton Robinson USDA may have estimated record soybean acreage for 2009, but the estimate was actually a million acres less than what the trade was expecting, according to analysts speaking at a CME Group press briefing on USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage report. Conversely, USDA’s estimate of corn acres was 3 million acres higher than expectations.... Southeast Farm Press News Archive Commentaries
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Crumpler is PPA winner for Upper SoutheastJul 1, 2009 1:04 PM, By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff Producing 5,700 pounds of peanuts per acre is just part of the success story of Suffolk, Va. farmer John Crumpler — the 2009 Peanut Profitability Award winner for the Upper Southeast.... Across the SunbeltBanding fertilizer, minimum till, and GPSEqual opportunity for plants — that’s what Glenn Mast and his son, Rodney, say they provide their crops when they band fertilizer under the row.... Texas crop, weatherWithout rain and with temperatures soaring to the high 90s or topping 100, large parts of the state continued to suffer drought-like conditions, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel.... Reducing blackberry sun-scaldResearch that had its genesis in an effort to address freeze damage to blackberries in the Midwest could also help protect blackberries in California from the state’s searing summer sun.... 
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