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.

TERRY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - The South Plains is known for its cotton, but Terry County is also a big producer of peanuts that are shipped nationwide. This year like many farmers, peanut growers are ...

Growing peanuts at home is fun, hugely satisfying and often easier than you may think. Known by many other names such as goobers, goober peas, earth nuts, ground nuts, pindas and pinders - Arachis ...

Peanuts are one of the world’s most widely grown crops and are not usually grouped with horticultural crops. They are most often classed as agronomic crops because commercial plantings of peanuts are ...

Dec. 28—Editor's Note: Part two of a three-part series. TIFTON — From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit the land, ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - After a minor setback with a wet season, Wiregrass farmers are kicking peanut harvesting into full gear. “Peanut harvest has been going well guys are getting out there this time ...

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.

BULLOCH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Peanut farmers across our region have started their harvest. Peanut farmers face two polar opposites in the same season. They wait months for the peanuts to grow and ...

Arkansas peanut farmers will see changes to their harvest season this fall due to severe heat in July. Arkansas experienced triple digit heat and drought conditions this summer, with temperature ...

Consider the peanut: more legume than nut, more row crop than bush or tree. And in Arkansas agriculture, it has often been more specialty crop than practical rotation crop for large-scale, commercial ...

A few weeks ago, I came across a young fellow who had never sampled a boiled peanut. He’s from Michigan -- bless his peanut-picking little heart -- and like so many Americans, his knowledge of the ...