by Doug Mayo | Feb 7, 2020
This week’s featured video is part two of the Mr. Peanut Super Bowl commercial saga. The advertising staff of the Planters company must have had a lot of fun dreaming up this advertising campaign for the Super Bowl. First they killed him off with a heroic act...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 31, 2020
This week’s featured video was published by Planters Peanuts. The company released the following video on social media this past week to preview the upcoming Supper Bowl Commercial that ends Mr Peanut’s 104 -years of advertising campaign for peanut snack...
by Michael Mulvaney | Dec 13, 2019
Irrigation is expensive. And there are a lot of non-irrigated or “dryland” acres across the Panhandle. 2019 was characterized by persistent drought stress for much of the season (see below). So in a dry year like 2019, what are you supposed to do to manage...
by Zane Grabau | Oct 11, 2019
Zane Grabau, UF/IFAS Crop Nematologist, Ethan Carter, Regional Crop Agent, Jay Capasso, Columbia County Extension, and Mark Mauldin, Washington County Extension Peanut root-knot nematodes are one of the most prevalent and damaging pests in peanut production in the...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 11, 2019
Source: USDA Economic Research Service Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, milk, hogs, and cow-calf. The series of commodity cost and...
by btillman | Aug 23, 2019
Ten years ago, I stood in a peanut field planted in late April surveying significant damage from spotted wilt. One year later in 2010, and for the next 8 years, spotted wilt would not make a significant presence across the Southeastern Peanut Belt. In fact, some...
