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Planting Concerns For Growers

It’s about planting time across the southeast, but a major problem for farmers, a three-month drought, has really got the farmers waiting to decide when to plant, how much to plant, and markets are changing. The war in Iran is creating some big issues, not only on the price of fertilizer, but on freight rates and fuel surcharges, and counting increases in energy costs …

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Looking in on the Peanut Market

Talking about the peanut market, as farmers try to decide what to plant this year, cotton is improving and that could influence the amount of acreage on peanuts. They say it’s going to be down 14% on the first estimate. The market is extremely quiet in all parts of the world, especially in the southeast of the U.S. and parts of Virginia and …

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Peanut Stocks and Processing Report Released By USDA

Stocks in processing for peanuts has been released for the month of February. That’s coming from USDA’s Ag Statistics Service. They said shelled animal use of peanuts is up slightly from last year after last month posting a four percent drop. The peanut stocks reported a commercial storage of about 532 billion pounds equivalent farmer stock, and that is up 34 percent. So an …

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Estimated Planting Acres of Peanuts by USDA

Ag Statistics Service of USDA has released the estimated planted acres this year for all the major crops. They always announce it on March 31st to give us an indication of what’s going to happen on the farm this year. Checking on peanuts. Growers intend to plant 1.67 million acres of peanuts this year. That is down 14 percent across the country compared with last year. Acreage …

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Weather Impacts to Planting Decisions

Well, one report this week might indicate some decisions have to be made about where you plant corn, peanuts, cotton, and where water is available or not. The National Weather Service reports that severe to extreme drought conditions are across the region. Drought conditions remain the worst experience, they said, since 2012. Long-term hydraulic drought impacts persist with also the significant impacts to rivers …

Programs

A Look At Government Programs For Row Crops

Peanut farmers, cotton farmers, and others are trying to figure out exactly what they’re going to plant this year. One thing we’ve learned is the PLC program, or Price Loss Coverage, or the ARC program put on by the government, they are decoupled from production. Both are determined by the farm’s base acres and the payment yield. Both base and payment yields are historical …

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Georgia State Seed Lab Urges Testing

Peanut farmers and other farmers are trying to get ready to plant this crop, not knowing exactly how many you’re going to plant or what you will be planting. The Georgia Department of Agriculture State Seed Lab encourages you to check your seed, have a seed test done on germination and vigor if you’re saving seed. The easiest way to submit seed to …

peanut production

Checking In On The Peanut Market

USDA Agriculture Department says we produced 3,590,000 tons of peanuts this past year. That’s an 11% increase over the previous year. Domestic use for domestic food is predicted to decrease this year about 1.6% so far. Peanuts for crush, that’s going into peanut oil, is up 22%. This could have been caused by some quality issues during the peanut harvest and some dry areas. Peanut …

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Peanut Proud Festival Preview

Well, if you’re planning next weekend, you want to make plans to go to Blakely, Georgia. Blakely will be having the Peanut Proud Festival. They’ve got teams working together from Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The big day is around the Courthouse Square in Blakely starting at 9 a.m. The Peanut Proud store will be open that day. They said they’ll have a …

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Southwest Peanut Crop Outlook

Well, the southeastern peanut crop is just about to get started here around April the 15th and planting peanuts. Peanut prices right now, according to the people that are growing in Texas, peanut prices are low, input costs are high, and rain is sparse. That’s the dilemma right now with Southwest growers growing in Texas, Oklahoma, and also New Mexico. They said the input …