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Byline: Brad Haire CB-1 and CB-2 hold up well and look pretty good. But Corley Holbrook says CB-7 will be the first commercially available peanut cultivar highly resistant to leaf [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Beeson Farms in Climax, NC, claimed the top honor of the 2022 Southeastern Hay Contest with an alfalfa hay that broke the contest's quality scale. Contest hay [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The anticipation in the airplane hangar finally settled. The announcement had been made. Robert Saunders shook congratulatory hands of nine farmers on the stage. He moved to [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Earlier this year, Richard Owen became the new president and CEO of the American Peanut Council, taking the helm after the retirement of Patrick Archer, who led [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Land value is a local game. What's done with just a handshake or penned out in a multi-year, multi-tiered agreement can vary from county to county and [...]

Byline: Brad Haire We don't want to complain about rain, so we won't. Let's just talk about it. Much of our region has been blessed with ample rain since planting [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Weather in the Southeast so far this spring has seen some swings, going from wet to extremely wet to a bit dry and then cool to near [...]

Byline: Brad Haire In 2020, University of Georgia Extension agents measured the levels of tomato spotted wilt virus in 292 peanut fields in 34 Georgia counties. The survey verified some [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The lower Southeast cotton crop was worth bragging about this summer. Some fields still look strong. But as bales get delivered to gins, we can see that [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Aflatoxin has challenged U.S. peanuts, costing money and reputation. At all levels, the industry has worked to curb the problem, but other challenges also compete for limited [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The last week of March, the trend caught steam: People were talking about peanut butter in a generous way. Nothing particularly new, but what and how much [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day will take place July 23 and draw agricultural scientists, Extension personnel and industry experts to provide insight on technologies and practices [...]

Byline: Brad Haire I have funny, fond memories of two special graduates. They've come a long way. My niece and nephew, both 18, are high school graduates this year. Due [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Graham Ginn was supposed to get his plaque for being the 2019 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award Winner from the lower Southeast during the Farm Press awards [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The annual Georgia Peanut Tour draws participants from several countries each year looking to learn more about how U.S. farmers grow sustainable, high-yielding, quality peanuts. On the [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A peanut scout would have paid off in Georgia this year. 'We get insect pressure every year, but when it's hot and dry like it has been [...]

Byline: Brad Haire For more than two decades it dominated the U.S. peanut market, accounting for more than 80 percent of total acreage. But it had a weak link. In [...]

Byline: Brad HaireMitch McConnell used his hemp pen to sign the 2018 House and Senate Farm Bill Conference Report, which recently passed both chambers. It was reported McConnell offered use [...]

Byline: Brad Haire 1 In the mid-1950s, something positive was happening to the U.S. peanut industry and the right people were aligning to recognize it and nurture a movement that [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A society is an organization formed for a specific purpose, activity or cause. Did you know the American peanut has a society all its own? The American [...]

Byline: Brad Haire 1 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the renewal of the Cotton Ginning Cost Share program during his morning remarks at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A new interactive map highlights where all cropland is worldwide in the highest resolution yet, researchers say. Released today, the map shows the world has 1.87 billion [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A recent analysis reveals how Hurricane Irma treated Georgia cotton. Hurricane Irma blew into Florida Sept. 11 and moved rapidly north into Georgia cotton country with tropical [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The direct track Hurricane Irma will decide is not fully understood right now, but it appears the mega-storm will hit someplace hard enough to damage Southeast agriculture. [...]

Byline: Brad Haire From tillage to contracts to crop protection to per-acre costs, peanut growers were asked questions about their production and marketing practices. With a click, their collective answers [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Peanut farmers who personally don't know the peanut burrower bug are fortunate. Growers who've battled the yield- and quality-reducing pest know something needs to be done to [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Charles Douglas would rather talk about the good works of others. But if you appeal to his generosity, he'll tell you about the boy in the orphanage [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Peanuts and good storytelling must be, at least in part, keys to a long, fruitful life. If you doubt this, take a look at Frank McGill. 'Sherman [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Farmers today have access to the best pesticide and fungicide products ever made. To get the consistent, high-quality yields needed to sustain their operations, farmers depend on [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Do it the legal way and you run the risk of losing a crop. Do it the less-legal way and you might get the crop but run [...]

Byline: Brad Haire We've all been there: We eye the last bit of peanut butter enticingly stuck at the bottom of the jar. For one fox, reaching for that last [...]

Byline: Brad Haire I didn't know this: It takes about 40,000 gallon of water to make a car, tires included; I didn't know this either: The first-ever municipal water filtration [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Testimonies given at the House Committee on Agriculture's 'Focus on the Farm Economy' hearings were sobering and vividly framed just how bad the current farm economic crisis [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Have you recently made a land lease agreement? Was it fair? Is it time to renegotiate? Situations change and can change quickly in farming. What seemed fair [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Peanut warehouse capacity, particularly in the Southeast, could reach its limit as the 2016 crop comes in, and farmers need to make sure that their peanuts will [...]

Byline: Brad Haire On Dec. 11, Dow and DuPont announced an all-stock merger that will create a new $130 billion company called DowDuPont. The joining of two of the oldest [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Each September in Atlanta at a conference center usually near the airport, Southern Extension economists gather in one room to discuss the current state of affairs and [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Most farmers didn't need to see the USDA report this week to know the U.S. farm economy has been groaning along for the last 18 months and [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Glenn and Casey Cox introduce the Flint River like it's a member of their family. And, in many ways, it is. The river has been the heritage [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A Nazi sniper's bullet hit him in Salerno, Italy. He was part of the Normandy invasion and fought at The Battle of the Bulge. Mr. Charlie Jenkins [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The Sunbelt Agriculture Expo Field Day is the best chance to visit one of the Southeast's premier educational and research facilities for the Southeast's top commodities, and [...]

Byline: Brad Haire The truck driver, a lovely Haitian lady, smiled and waved. I took her picture and she smiled and waved some more. But some of the fieldworkers made [...]

Byline: Brad Haire What does being married almost 54 years to the same person have in common with being a top-shelf plant breeder? Both endeavors require a lot of patience [...]

Byline: Brad Haire A farmer earlier this year wondered how many acres he would be able to plant this season. But he also had another question on his mind: If [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Matt Dicks and Jason Dicks are armed with wry humor and good-natured jabs but the young men are serious about making farming a career. Both cousins were [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Steve Brown retired as interim director of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension earlier this year, after a 33-year career in the organization primarily as an agronomic [...]

Byline: Brad Haire Johnny Cochran says it's just farming's turn to ride the downside of the economic roller coaster. 'Everything has downturns, and this year will be one for farming. [...]

Byline: Brad Haire As part of a new federal push to improve U.S. water quality, support wildlife habitat and enhance the environment at the local and regional levels, Agriculture Secretary [...]

Shannon Nixon, a farmer from Baker, Florida, has won the 2024 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award for his successful soybean-peanut rotation. Nixon switched from growing cotton to soybeans four years ago due to economic reasons. He has developed a system that incorporates both legumes into his fields, focusing on minimal soil disturbance and precise timing. Despite his unconventional rotation, Nixon follows the Peanut Rx program to mitigate diseases and maintains a strict weed management system. He is also concerned about the increasing price of farmland in his area and believes that agricultural land should remain productive for future generations. [Extracted from the article]

Faylene Whitaker has made history by becoming the first female overall winner of the Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year program. She and her late husband, Richard, started their farming dream with ten acres of rented land and grew it into Whitaker Farms & Garden Nursery, operating on 940 acres in North Carolina. Faylene's dedication to farming, learning, and family has earned her this prestigious honor, which she humbly attributes to her family, workers, and employees. [Extracted from the article]