A two- or three-year rotation of peanuts with cotton or other crops can help growers manage disease and possibly lower the number of fungicide treatments needed, said an Oklahoma State University Extension specialist....More
Total domestic and world peanut use is projected at about 2.6 million tons this year. But with about 3.87 million tons worldwide, that leaves about 1 million tons that must be worked through....More
With a large supply overhanging the market from last year's record peanut crop, buyers say this year's acreage could drop 30 percent to 40 percent....More
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack received a thunderous ovation from a standing room only crowd at the recently completed Commodity Classic when he admonished the U.S. Congress to, “Forget about your party, forget about the people who paid for your last campaign, forget about your next campaign, and just do your job.”...More
More than 450 exhibits, featuring the latest in equipment, products, and services await you at the 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which begins today (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis....More
The 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show gets under way tomorrow (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis, offering more than 400 exhibits of the latest equipment, products, and services for the 2013 farming season....More
While the peanut markets are expected to remain depressed going into the 2013 production season, there is some good news for producers this year....More
Cotton and peanuts have traditionally been among crop royalty in the South. Historically, if cotton is to be called king, surely peanuts would be the crown prince, but both are likely to face severe challenges for acreage in the upcoming 2013 planting season....More
U.S. Representatives Martha Roby (R-Ala.) and Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-Ga.) have announced the re-formation of the Congressional Peanut Caucus for the 113th Congress. ...More
Sunland, Inc., has announced that most of the workers laid off after the company’s Portales, New Mexico, peanut butter mill was shuttered last September following a recall of organic peanut butter products are now back at work....More
The Texas A&M AgriLife Research peanut breeding program has been busy, releasing four new varieties in the past two years to meet producers’ needs, according to the breeders....More
Texas and New Mexico peanut growers may get a break after a peanut butter plant closed by a salmonella outbreak last fall was given the go ahead last week to start accepting Valencia peanuts under an agreement reached in court that ends a standoff between plant officials and federal regulators over cleanup issues....More
Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, 2013, the federal estate tax exemption is set to drop from $5.12 million to $1 million while the tax rate is set to rise from 35 percent to 55 percent for estates valued over the exemption amount....More
EPA, which has been working intensely with states to reduce the nutrient load in the Chesapeake Bay, also has turned its attention to the Mississippi River Basin....More
Grain prices will likely again drive U.S. agriculture in 2013, according to several speakers at the recent Tennessee agriculture leadership forum, made possible by Farm Credit Mid-America....More
In a new study, the USDA’s Economic Research Service has found that, “an abrupt end to the direct payment program could reduce the number of farms with a favorable financial status ... by about 11,000 nationally, or about 2 percent of farms that received direct payments in 2009....More
One-thousand-dollar-per-ton prices, as good as they sounded at the time, might have been the worst thing to happen to the peanut industry, says Nathan Smith, University of Georgia Extension economist....More
