Dec. 28—Editor's Note: Part two of a three-part series. TIFTON — From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit the land, ...

Contrary to popular belief, the peanut is not a nut. It's actually a vegetable belonging to the legume family, which includes peas and beans. These tropical natives of South America require about 120 ...

Before Americans created the pedestrian peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the peanut led an exotic life. Traced back to Peru and Brazil, the peanut was cultivated throughout South America and as far ...

It's not hard to learn how to grow peanuts! These nitrogen-fixing legumes are a great crop to add to the rotation of your summer garden. Did you know that peanuts grow underground? Learn how to grow ...

PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) - A lot of people in the Pine Belt are happy to see rain, but many farmers are hoping for some dry weather to speed up the planting of this year’s peanut crop. Drought conditions ...

TIFTON — Unusually warm weather conditions and high soil temperatures have Georgia farmers itching to plant peanuts, but University of Georgia peanut agronomist Scott Monfort cautions peanut producers ...

A few weeks back, I received an email from John M. over in Vermont asking where he could buy peanuts for planting. It got me reminiscing of when dad and I grew them in the garden. It was one of those ...

Arkansas farmers are planting more peanuts, hitting record acreage as the profitable crop gains popularity with growers throughout the South. The yellow-flowered plant is grown mainly in the ...

Peanut seedlings that are part of UGA research. TIFTON — Now is the peak time to plant peanuts in Georgia, according to Cristiane Pilon, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension peanut physiologist ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Drought and strong prices could push more peanut production out of traditional regions and into states such as Arkansas and Mississippi not known for growing peanuts but with ample ...

Alabama has been listed second in peanut production with an estimated 637 million pounds of peanuts produced in 2020, according the USDA National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS), with Houston ...