If peanut acres in 2021 go up or down, it likely won t be by much. Either way, peanut farmers, like many others across the South, could use some breaks in 2021. Right now, we just hope we ll start the year off better than last year without as many problems with stands as we unfortunately experienced last spring. We hope we ll see better germination and quality. It does not mean that we re going to skip out on some problems this year, but we do need a better year for certain, said Scott Monfort, University of Georgia Extension peanut agronomist.
Weather-wise, conditions this winter have treated most of the Peanut Belt better than in previous seasons, he said, and that s a good starting sign.
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Brad Haire The final numbers on the 2020 crop are not altogether final, but it appears that the 28 Alabama gins will process about 700,000 bales from last year’s crop.
In the Feb. 15 Alabama Cotton Shorts, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service cotton agronomist Steve Brown discusses where Alabama s average 2020 cotton yields will likely end up and highlights a good page turner number.
The final numbers on the 2020 crop are not altogether final, but it appears that the 28 Alabama gins will process about 700,000 bales from last year’s crop. Converting to a standard USDA bale measure of 480 lbs and assuming an average running bale weight of 493 lbs, that is almost 719,000 total bales harvested. Given an FSA tally of 445,000 acres, the average production settles at 775 lb/A.
Sprayer Calibration
News Reporter I’m Tim Hammerich with your Southeast Regional Ag Report.
Farmers today are so efficient with their spray applications. In some cases they are using a fraction of an ounce of application to cover a land area. To do this effectively though, a sprayer must be properly calibrated.
David Russell is an extension weed specialist with Auburn University and the Alabama Extension Service. He created a short guide to help simplify sprayer calibration.
Russell… “Whether it s weed management or insect pest management, it s really important that sprayers be calibrated so that the operator knows exactly how much is going out over how big of an area that product is being applied. Because the last thing they want to do is after purchasing, in some cases, really expensive products. Is to misapply that in a way that they will have off-target injury or will need to come back a second time because the first time was misapplied. So if not done co