By Brad Haire, University of Georgia
After rough spring weather, the heat is on. ...
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....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Peanut acreage in the Southeast is expected to drop in 2009 to the lowest level since 1915 because of an over-supply of peanuts, expected lower prices than 2008, and a well-publicized salmonella outbreak that cut peanut butter consumption....
By Brad Haire
University of Georgia
The peanut plant grows a thick canopy of compound leaves close to the ground. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
What a helpless feeling U.S. peanut producers must have had for the past six months or so. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I was 11 years old, and it was tobacco barning season, and we got up early that morning taking out tobacco. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers and friends attending the 2009 Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition Field Day, scheduled for July 7, will get to see some new varieties and crops, some new ways of crop production and a lot of valuable variety information on staple crops of the Southeast....
By Sharon Durham
United States Department of Agriculture
A calculator that helps peanut handlers and processors determine the right amount of ventilation for their storage warehouses is available on the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Web site....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Just because their damage isn’t readily visible doesn’t mean soil insect pests can’t considerably lower peanut yields. ...
By Eddie McGriff
Coffee County Ga., Extension Coordinator
For the first time in many years, we are faced with delayed planting of peanuts due to wet fields. ...
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