9/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
New Mexico State University is teaming up with area researchers and universities to bring Cooperative Extension Service agents, agricultural professionals, shellers, roasters and processors the latest information about peanut production through two field days. Read more on the field days from this Southwest Farm Press article.
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9/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
The cotton harvest is running early in the upper Southeast and that is good news. The bad news, however, is that yields will probably be down because of poor growing conditions during the summer months. Read more on the cotton harvest and conditions of other upper Southeast crops from this Southeast Farm Press article.
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9/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
Peanuts are finishing early in some fields in Georgia and South Carolina, and digging has started in both states. Extension specialists caution that the crop, as a whole, is not early and that only certain fields are ahead of schedule. Read more on the crop from this latest edition of PeanutFax.
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8/31/2010 12:00:00 AM
Peanut prices received by farmers for all farmer stock peanuts averaged 20.4 cents per pound for the week ending August 21, down 1.2 cents from the previous week. Marketings of all farmer stock peanuts for the week ending August 21 totaled 77.2 million pounds, up 19.8 million pounds from the previous week. Read more on markets and prices from this full report at the link below.
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8/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
Georgia's tobacco and pecan crops are on pace for a surprisingly good year. Not surprisingly, though, above-normal temperatures have smothered the state and taken a toll on some row crops, like peanuts and cotton. Read more on Georgia crops from this Southeast Farm Press article.
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8/27/2010 12:00:00 AM
We've been seeing a lot of southern stem rot (white mold) on peanuts recently. It's pretty typical to get outbreaks when rain follows hot, dry weather. Read more on the disease and its control from this page 5 North Carolina Pest News article.
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8/24/2010 12:00:00 AM
Prior to the 2010 planting season, the U.S. peanut industry was expecting an acreage increase of 8 to 10 percent. Instead, producers boosted their plantings by 17 percent, and the market is now reacting, says Richard Barnhill, an Albany, Georgia, peanut broker. Read more on the markets and acreage from this Southeast Farm Press article.
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8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
Nothing adds insult to injury like spider mites when you 're waiting for a drought to end. Mites are naturally controlled by fungi and flourish when conditions aren't favorable for fungal growth. Read more on the populations from this Southeast Farm Press article at the link below.
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8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
When the government peanut program was scrapped, Mitchell Farms stopped growing peanuts for the commercial market and now, says Don Mitchell, they sell all their production at their farm. They also expanded row crop and vegetable acreage and added an agritourism operation that draws thousands of visitors each year.
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8/17/2010 12:00:00 AM
A "very unusual alignment of factors" means Texas could have an unusually large cotton crop that coincides with high prices in the market, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service cotton expert. Read more on the cotton crop and other crop and weather details from this full report at the link below.
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