Favorable market, growing conditions for delayed Texas peanut crop.

Corn and sorghum growers were stopping harvest midway through a field due to high moisture levels, thus slowing harvest. For example, peanut-producing areas that received 1.9 inches of rainfall from April to September last year received 1.8 inches of rainfall in April alone this year. Hay baling delays continued due to rainfall events, but hay production was at record levels after the first cutting. Texas peanut growers have favorable market and growing conditions, and with a little down-the-stretch cooperation from Mother Nature, 2021 could be a bumper year, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. [Extracted from the article]