The peanut crop has been plentiful around the Pine Belt this year, but harvesting the crop has been more troublesome, farmers said. Mitchell Farms owner Don Mitchell said harvesting peanuts in dry ...

Anyone who has driven in Baldwin County over the last month undoubtedly came across one of many farmers harvesting peanuts. Plumes of dust, and small dust storms shrouding farming combines and ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Peanut season is wrapping up for North Carolina farmers. Now they’re taking a look at their crop to determine when the best time is to harvest. A process called peanut pod ...

SYLVANIA, Ga. (WTOC) - It takes approximately 150 days in between planting and harvesting peanuts, something the Boyd family has been doing in Effingham and Screven counties for more than a century.

Peanuts, like most major row crops in Arkansas, are heading toward harvest at an aggressive clip. But after the high heat of the 2023 summer, growers will need to weigh the decision of when to fully ...

Because it takes a lot of peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter, commercial peanuts are grown on hundreds of acres at a time. There's also tremendous value in growing a few peanut plants of your own.

Peanuts have a natural ability to fix nitrogen from the air and soil, thereby reducing the need for fertilizer, according to the Peanut Board. But the key benefit of growing peanuts is its value as a ...

For a smooth peanut harvest, these Gaines Countians have their precipitation hopes on hold. "It's all really weather-dependent. We hope for dry Octobers and Novembers," Jeffery Long said. Long is a ...

On average, Americans consume more than three kilos of peanuts and peanut products each year. Although the nutty legumes are a good source of vitamins and fibre, for a small but growing sector of the ...