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Kelly Chamberlin, USDA-ARS Comrade is praised for pod size distribution, seed size and earliness. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Southwest peanut producers will soon have a new, early maturing, high-yielding Virginia variety with the joint release of Comrade by the USDA-ARS Center for Peanut Improvement, Stillwater, Okla., and N.C. State University Agriculture Research in Raleigh, N.C. “Comrade is an exceptional variety,” says Kelly Chamberlin, Cent...

"When I graduated from college, I was a commodity futures broker for eight years," Evans said in a recent interview with Farm Press. Before transitioning into the family farm in the early 90s, Evans received his bachelors in agricultural business and economics from West Texas A&M University, Canyon. "Ive been around the markets my entire adult life," he said. When people think of marketing, they often think of selling commodities at a good price, he says. "But I promise you, Im the last one who...