By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The recent growth of South Carolina’s peanut industry, especially the large percentage of Virginia-type peanuts grown, has created a big need for calcium, commonly referred to as land-plaster. ...
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The fertile ground of the U.S. Midwest is ample proof that a sod-based rotation can be beneficial, says David Wright, University of Florida Extension agronomist....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cylindrocladium black rot is not a new disease to peanut growers, but it continues to slowly spread across the Southeastern peanut production belt and is a particularly big threat to Virginia type peanuts....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
South Carolina peanut growers are facing a year with little government support, no contracts as of early February and many uncertainties in input costs. ...
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The peanut market is over-supplied — that is the one certainty as producers begin to make planting decisions for 2009....
Todd Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), has appealed to all people in the state to support Virginia’s peanut industry which has been hit hard by a drop in consumption due to the recall of peanut products from a manufacturer in Georgia. ...
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Peanut producers should be knowledgeable and know their real cost of shelling, treating and storing before committing to plant non-professionally produced seed, says Terry Hollifield of the Georgia Crop Improvement Association....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Speaking to an over-flow crowd at the recent South Carolina Peanut Growers annual meeting, Marie Fenn, managing director of the National Peanut Board said, the current salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter began in Minnesota in a nursing home facility in which salmonella was found in an open container of peanut butter....
By Jan Suszkiw
United States Department of Agriculture
Tiny, wormlike organisms called nematodes can be friend or foe to farmers. ...
Todd P. Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), has released a statement about the nationwide peanut product recall: “Virginia peanuts, because of their superior quality, are generally sold as shelled or in-shell peanuts, and these products are safe to eat. ...
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