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The 2021 peanut planting season is well underway, but still on the minds of many growers are the various issues they had to deal with last year, with leaf spot and white mold being two of those. BASF Technical Service Representative Abraham Fulmer told Southeast AgNet’s Randall Weiseman, this was an issue even in some very well rotated fields last year. Go …
The American Peanut Council will have a webinar titled, “Growing Together” on Wednesday, May 19. The topic is building a better peanut through desirable traits and genetic innovation. Tyron Spearman has more details.
(TALLAHASSEE, Wednesday, May 12, 2021/NSF) — Amid arguments about the troubled citrus industry and the health of farmworkers, a chemical company is challenging a state decision to block a pesticide that could help fight a disease that has caused massive damage in citrus groves. AgLogic Chemical, LLC filed an administrative challenge Tuesday, about three weeks after the state Department of …
With peanut planting underway across the belt here in the U.S., Tyron Spearman looks at what is happening with peanut markets in other areas of the world right now.
As peanut seed goes into the ground for the 2021 crop, Tyron Spearman looks at some of the factors concerning marketing issues right now.
While recent rains have slowed planting progress once again across the Southeast, storage of those grain crops being planted is something to think about. According to the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES), grain bin fumigation is a crucial but dangerous aspect of any grain farmer’s operation. They note the process of fumigating for pests begins well before grain enters the …
USDA’s latest Peanut Stocks and Processing Report shows positive numbers for most all categories of consumption. Tyron Spearman has the new figures.
Many Southeast farmers dealt with cool, wet weather to start the 2021 planting season. But according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS), both cotton and peanut planting were close to the 5-year averages this past week. USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says rain in other areas of the cotton belt hampered planting. …
The latest report from USDA indicates peanut stocks are down. But as Tyron Spearman reports, not quite as far down as some had hoped they would be going into planting season.
Peanut contracts have been basically steady as growers have started, or are ready to start putting seed in the ground. Tyron Spearman has this week’s peanut market update.
