Well production of peanuts is going down this year. They have dropped down 31 percent overall across the nation and that is being reflected in the state yields. They’re showing now that Alabama had 139,000 acres of of peanuts and their average yield dropped from October’s estimate of 3,000 pounds per acre down to 2,800 pounds per acre. And now it looks like they’ll only yield about 194,000 instead of last year’s 326,000 tons.
Florida, Florida has also dropped. They had dropped from 3,700 pound estimated yield in October. They’re down to 3,500 and now their yield will be about 220,000 tons compared to last year’s 320,000 tons.
Georgia has the same problem. Georgia had 660,000 acres. They were estimated to have 4,050 pounds per acre.
They’ve cut it down to 3,850 pounds per acre and Georgia now will yield 1.27 million tons instead of 1.83 million tons. So overall everybody’s being cut. This crop has been hurt with a lack of rain and a poor growing season and it’s all down about 31 percent but major problems in the southeast.
Audio Reporting by Tyron Spearman for Southeast AgNet.