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Peanut Industry Seeking More Funding for Exports

Dan March 30, 2018 Exports/Imports, Peanuts

The peanut industry is supporting efforts for Congress to increase funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development Program (FMD) in the new Farm Bill. Tyron Spearman has the details. Peanut Industry Seeking More Funding for Exports

Efforts Continue to Sell More Peanuts Abroad

Dan November 16, 2017 Peanuts

Efforts continue to get more funding for USDA’s export programs, including the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) Program. Tyron Spearman has the story.

Citrus Breeder: Growers Need to Think More Out of the Box
If cold-hardy citrus growers diversified their crops and not put all of their eggs in the satsuma basket, it would provide them a better chance at long-term sustainability. It would allow producers an opportunity to combat the negative national stigma concerning citrus juices, says Jude Grosser, a professor of plant cell genetics at the University […]
PIECES OF THE PAST: Growers Recall the Way It Used To Be
By Brenda Eubanks Burnette It’s hard to imagine how the early pioneers managed to grow, pick, pack and ship their fruit without the technological means we have today. In doing various oral history interviews this year, that point was really brought home to me. One grower recalled how irrigating his family’s grove meant moving the […]