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USDA will award the first tranche of funding under its new $1.2 billion Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, or RAPP, in 2024 with $300 million from the Commodity Credit Corporation.
Early rainfall in November has given some Aussie peanut growers the boost that they needed, securing a positive start to the 2020/2021 peanut growing season. Unfortunately for one local grower, they've made the tough decision to skip peanuts this season because of a lack of water. Alloway farmer Dean Cayley said in just over a decade of growing peanuts, they've only skipped planting peanuts once before. With about 60 per cent of his water allocation, he's opted to plant soybeans instead. Mr Cayley said there was a wet winter and spring forecast which never eventuated so he wasn't going t...