Earlier this month peanut farmers should have received a ballot in the mail asking them to vote on the re-authorization of the National Peanut Board (NPB). ...
The annual meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society will be held July 14–17, 2009 at the Marriott Raleigh City Center in Raleigh, N.C. ...
Peanut growers plagued with Cylindrocladium black rot (CBR) have a new in-furrow tool to suppress this disease. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By the end of March peanut farmers in the Southeast are usually sitting on go, contracts in hand and looking forward to the challenge of producing a good crop. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an agricultural world in which farms seem to be getting bigger and bigger, Surry, Va., brothers Michael and Steven Pittman like staying small just fine....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The impact of the nationwide peanut butter recall has been far reaching and could ultimately cost America’s peanut producers up to $1 billion in lost production and sales, said Don Koehler, executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission, testifying before Congress last month....
Faced with a one-two punch of over-supply and a major food safety scare, Virginia peanut growers are expected to plant 50 percent fewer acres this year than they did in 2008. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Peanut butter is back. Following a downturn in sales of more than 19 percent in January, compared to year earlier sales volume, February numbers show the beginning of a recovery, a decline of only .84 percent, according to Marie Fenn, president and managing director, National Peanut Board in Atlanta....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As planting time approaches farmers in the upper Southeast continue to struggle with the question of what to plant and how to grow the crops they do plant....
In February, Todd Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), called on state agencies and employees, as well as citizens and other groups, to donate peanut butter to Virginia’s food banks. ...
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