Checking on the peanut crops across Alabama and Florida today.
Alabama said they still have some planting to do this late. Additions are being replanted areas as well. It’s been extremely dry, they said for the past and hot the past week.
We have been making some delayed fungicide and herbicide applications. Water demand is increasing, they said and hoping they’ll get some more rain this week as peanuts begin to lap in the middle. Florida is showing a 55 percent pegging.
That compares to their fiber average of 59 percent. Overall, they said the Florida peanut crop appears in good shape. Rain in May cause some acreage to be planted in early June, especially in the panhandle of Florida.
The past two weeks have been dry and hot so the dryland crop needs rain as soon as possible in north Florida and the Florida panhandle. Soil moisture in the state is 15 percent very short, 24 percent short, 54 percent adequate and only 5 percent of the state is in surplus. But overall, the crop is looking good in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama for the first 60 to 80 days.
Let’s keep it going but we need some rain soon.
Audio Reporting by Tyron Spearman for Southeast AgNet.