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USDA’s Ag Statistics Service along with the Foreign Agriculture Service has announced the latest buying of peanuts for the past three months. That is January through March. The peanut industry is worried that they had lost part of their export market because it was down 25 percent for the last year and now, we are looking now at improvements in …
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is prioritizing nutrient density on many of the foods and overall health outcomes when evaluating food products. One product that we like to enjoy is peanuts and peanut butter. As the most widely known consumed nut, the per capita consumption of peanuts was 7.3 pounds per person …
The American Peanut Council serves to promote peanuts abroad for American peanut farmers. They do pay membership through the American Peanut Council, which also gets some special grant money through the Market Access Program from USDA. A rigorous selection process has been underway for them to pick out some new markets to expand excess of export of peanuts. They recently assessed the market …
The National Peanut Board is launching a new platform that will tell the world about peanuts and how important they are. Peanuts have long been a part of the American life. Now they are poised to take center stage this week and the next few weeks. If the industry’s unified voice is any indication, the world is about to discover that peanuts …
Today, the National Peanut Board has launched a brand platform that aims to elevate peanuts beyond being just a reliable staple. The theme? It’s not nuts, it’s peanuts. For the first time, the U.S. farmers, manufacturers, and other brands are rallying behind this one cohesive identity, celebrating the humble crop as a distinctive category of one. It’s not nuts, it’s peanuts. They say …
Well, it’s peanut planting time. Peanut farmers are waiting for the area that has not received any rain to get a rain to get this peanut crop in the ground. What’s going to happen now? Waiting on USDA to give us an estimate on how many peanuts have been planted before any contracts are going to be sealed. The first estimate was that this …
Well, the peanut farmers keep watching the Peanut Stocks and Processing Report from USDA and it shows they have too many peanuts. Matter of fact, the commercial storage right now is up 36.4% compared to the same time last year. Also, the shell peanut items that are stored in warehouses is also up 20.4% compared to last March. That’s pushing the price of peanuts down …
Scott Monfort, the peanut specialist in Georgia provided an update and some recommendations for peanut growers. Monfort said, “The best thing as you can walk outside and see right now is rainfall. We needed that to get this moving in the right direction. We estimate that we’re about a quarter of the acres being planted at this point. And if I …
Drought conditions have impacted southern crop planting and USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey provided an overview of those conditions. Rippey said, “Core drought areas include the southern United States, portions of the Great Plains, and extending into the western United States. If you look at the regions, the southeast region, we are seeing at this time, not only do we have 99 percent …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has appointed additional representatives to the National Peanut Board. The National Peanut Board is made up of 12 producer members and their alternates with eleven members and their alternates representing the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Additionally, an at-large member and alter represent the …
