USDA has released the expected yields for the coming year, even though the weather has not been helpful in some areas, but most everybody has received rain to give some indication of a good crop this year for peanuts.
In Florida, Florida has now averaged 3,900 pounds of peanuts per acre. They say they’ll drop to 3,800 pounds this coming year. Georgia was at 4,050 pounds per acre last year.
They’re expected to go up slightly to 4,150 pounds per acre. And in Alabama from 34, they’re going to drop down to 3,200 pounds per acre as they’ve had some drought areas in that area. But overall, the yield for this coming year, average yield will be 3,956 pounds per acre nationwide.
And that is up 189 pounds per acre across the country. Overall production 2,000 or 2,709,700 acres or tons of production. And that is down 24% from last year in the production of peanuts.
But overall, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and along with South Carolina, they produce about 70% of the peanuts produced in the U.S. for the coming year, but they will be down about 24%.
Audio Reporting by Tyron Spearman for Southeast AgNet.