National Peanut Board President and CEO Bob Parker will retire at the end of 2023, ending a decade in the role. His focus in this last inning still is farmer profitability, peanut allergy and industry unity.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mountain of peanuts is piling up in the U.S. south, threatening to hand American taxpayers a near $2-billion bailout bill over the next three years, and leaving the government with a big chunk of the crop on its books.
TIFTON, Ga. — Attendees were able to fine-tune their farming operations with information gained at the 45th annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show and Conference Jan. 19-20 at the University of
If peanut acres in 2021 go up or down, it likely won t be by much. Either way, peanut farmers, like many others across the South, could use some breaks in 2021. Right now, we just hope we ll start the year off better than last year without as many problems with stands as we unfortunately experienced last spring. We hope we ll see better germination and quality. It does not mean that we re going to skip out on some problems this year, but we do need a better year for certain, said Scott Monfort, University of Georgia Extension peanut agronomist.
Weather-wise, conditions this winter have treated most of the Peanut Belt better than in previous seasons, he said, and that s a good starting sign.