Farmers, don’t miss your chance to access hurricane relief grants! Deadline to Apply: December 31, 2024 Review Period: January 2025 Payouts Begin: February 2025 Apply now and get the support you need to rebuild and thrive. Visit supportgeorgiafarmers.org

Cool graphic of our current cropland distribution!

On this #NationalDayofMourning, we honor the life, and service of President Jimmy Carter. The 39th President was a farmer himself, growing up on his family's peanut farm in Georgia. May he rest in peace as his legacy lives on.

2025 started with a good lesson. I ended the year with 3 tough grant rejections, and began the year with 2 accepted papers and a pay raise. Ebbs and flows; patience and perseverance ✌️

Eye on Research: How plant roots take up and process what's in soil has a big impact on plant growth and carbon storage. Researchers @ornl have pioneered the use of a unique tool that can analyze the chemical elements in biological samples: energy.gov/science/articl…

1/ Peanut #prices received by farmers for all farmer stock #peanuts averaged 27.3 cents per pound for the week ending Jan. 11, up 3.8 cents from the previous week. From the National Agricultural Statistics Service: tinyurl.com/yckc8cpj

📣Mark your calendar!! GA Peanut Research Report Day is next week, Wed., Feb. 5, at 9:00 a.m. in the NESPAL seminar room on the UGA Tifton campus. 🥜 bit.ly/4aM1TcD #researchreportday #peanutresearch #ugatifton #ugaextension

We’re hiring! Looking for a new field technician to join our team. Local applicants preferred with a Bachelor’s or some college in an ag-related major. If you love row crop agriculture, love being outdoors, and want to contribute to the success of #Georgia #peanut #growers,

#DidYouKnow that one acre of peanuts = 35,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? 🥜 That's a whole lot of goodness in one acre! #GaPeanuts #PeanutButter #PeanutFacts #FoodFacts #PeanutButterLovers #GeorgiaPeanuts #SnackFacts

2/2 #Hurricane and #flooding related conditions also accounted for a significant share of total US crop losses in 2024, reaching $6.7 billion. From the American Farm Bureau: tinyurl.com/3n676ser

NC Peanut Growers, Your Voice Matters! 🥜 On Friday, March 7, vote YES to keep peanut farming strong in #NorthCarolina! Support research, education & advocacy with a $3.00/ton assessment. Vote at your County Extension Office! Tag a grower & spread the word! #NCPeanutFarmers

Soak in this peanut fact! 💧😊 Just 3.2 gallons of water produce 1oz of peanuts, making them one of the most water-efficient nuts. 🥜 Deep roots reach water 🥜 Mostly rain-fed 🥜 Smallest carbon footprints of any nut 🥜 Can pause growth in droughts #NCPeanuts

It’s National Ag Day! #USDAScience is making agriculture more efficient & prosperous than ever before, helping farmers to feed, fuel & clothe all Americans. #AgDay25

Happy National Ag Day to our amazing farmers in North Carolina and across the nation!🚜

USDA reinstates more than 5000 fired probationary employees and says it will provide backpay after a federal a civil service board ordered a 45-day pause on the firings. A little bit of happiness amid the chaos 🙏

Today is #WorldWaterDay! Did you know that the peanut is a water-efficient crop? It only takes 3.2 gallons of water to produce one ounce of shelled peanuts. 🌊🥜 #SustainableAgriculture #NationalPeanutMonth #GaPeanuts #GeorgiaPeanuts

Best of luck to the Pack at the ACC Baseball Tournament today! ⚾️🐺 #NCPeanuts have fueled #Pack9 ⚾️'s team all season—powering home runs and rallying fans in the stands. We’re proud to power up the Pack with the ultimate ballpark classic! 🥜 Go Wolfpack! ❤️

#Viewpoint: Bring back the phenotype Dr. César Marín & Michael J. Wade 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

Excited to share my newest publication on root phenotyping in peanut! A fun project that resulted in a low cost and practical tool that can be used in any crop for research, extension, and outreach! peanutscience.com/article/id/165…