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If you call up a farmer today and ask him what’s happening, he would probably respond, waiting on the rain. Some isolated showers have come across the southeast Georgia area and the southwest area, but not enough to solve the water shortage. Some peanut producers have started irrigating to try to get enough peanuts to come up along when most of the corn is gone and …
Nominations are now open for the 26th American Peanut Research and Education Awards. The industry is looking for someone that has outstanding individuals or teams whose work continues to move the peanut industry forward. All nominations are subject to the deadline in 1st of May. Awards will be presented at the American Peanut Research and Education Annual Meeting to be held July the …
To no one’s surprise, the Federal Reserve Board expected to leave interest rates unchanged at the conclusion of their meeting. Looking at CME’s FedWatch tool shows a better than 90% chance rates will not change at the June meeting or July meeting. There is no meeting in May. There’ll be a new Fed chairman when the board does meet in June …
Weekly crop update show planning progress in this area, but still slow north of Interstate 80 in the Northern Belt. Rain, of course, one factor, but April is ending on a chilly side. Soil temperatures still below 50 degrees, many areas north of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In fact, Ames, Iowa, just last week, surpassed 52 degrees at the 4-inch level. And we …
In the southeast, the drought continues in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. There has now been wildfires that have expanded, causing evacuations, especially near the Georgia-Florida line. Peanut farmers have been able to get into the fields of plant, hoping that some moisture can come with the rain as quick as possible. The Peanut Commission in Georgia has approved some research projects. They invest $2 …
The Birth of a Seed Revolution In 1931, Roswell Garst and Charlie Thomas founded the Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Company in Coon Rapids. Their work came at a time when American agriculture was rapidly evolving, and innovation was essential for improving crop production. The company became a major force in promoting hybrid corn—an agricultural breakthrough that offered higher yields, …
The Georgia Peanut Commission, based in Tifton, has approved $764,000 in research project funding for the 2025-26 research budget year. This action was taken during the Commission’s March board meeting. The research projects approved included 40 project proposals submitted from the University of Georgia, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, and USDA’s Ag Research Service. According to Joe Botifer, the chairman of that research committee, our …
While drought conditions are keeping some growers out of the fields, growers in other parts of the country have made progress on this year’s planting. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey provides an update on corn planting so far this season. “Getting into the state numbers, Tennessee is showing some remarkable progress again this week. 64 percent of the corn acreage planted, …
The drought continues in the southeast, especially in Georgia, South Georgia, northern Florida, and lower Alabama. The drought has closed all peanut operations, just about it, and nobody can get the peanuts planted in the ground, and that’s going to delay everything moving into the 2026 crop. USCA predicted from last year’s crop an 11% increase. That’s also keeping the market down as far as increases, …
A longtime axiom in the grain trade is follow oats. Oats knows. Well, if that’s true, there are struggles ahead for all grain producers. USDA’s March acreage report showed oat acres to be the third lowest on record, just 2.4 million acres. It would seem to follow them, fewer acres, reduced supply, that prices would be improving. July oat futures have been range …
