Welcome
to the Georgia Peanut Commission's Web site. The Georgia Agricultural
Commodity Commission for Peanuts
was established in 1961 under the Commodities Promotion Act.
The
Commission conducts programs in the areas of promotion, research
and education. Thank you for visiting our Web site. We hope you
enjoy your visit.
Grower Hotline Feb.
7, 2012 - December Prices Up, Peanut Research Report Day Tomorrow,
and Trade Show in Dothan Thursday
Feb, 6, 2012 - GPC Annual Research Report Day Coming Up Wednesday
at NESPAL
Feb. 3, 2012 - Eric Prostko On Fighting the Pigweed Battle Georgia
Peanut Commission sets Research Report
Day for February
8 The
Georgia Peanut Commission will hold the annual Research Report Day, February
8, 2012, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the National Environmentally Sound Production
Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL), located on the University of Georgia Tifton
campus. The event provides growers and industry representatives an opportunity
to hear the latest reports on research projects funded by GPC in 2011. Georgia
Peanut Farm Show provides farmers a
day of education More
than 1,600 producers were able to fine-tune their farming
operations with information gained at the 36th
Annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show on Jan. 19, 2012, at the Albany
Civic Center in Albany, Ga. The show is sponsored by the Georgia
Peanut Commission in cooperation with the University of Georgia. View
Press Release from Event View
Photos from the Event View
Youtube Videos from the Event Twenty-fifth
annual Georgia Peanut Tour held in
Southwest Georgia
For many first time attendees on the 25th
annual Georgia Peanut Tour the event provided them with
an opportunity to actually walk through a peanut field
and see peanuts plowed up with a digger at harvest. The
tour kicked off last week and highlighted a cross section
of the peanut industry. The tour was held September 27-29,
2011, in the Southwest area of Georgia with stops in some
of the top ten peanut producing counties in Georgia including
Decatur, Seminole, Miller and Early counties. Click
here for more details on the tour. Follow
the tour blog. View
photos from the tour 25th Anniversary Georgia Peanut
Tour Video
Weekly
Market Price of Peanuts Feb.
1, 2012
*
$1,249.52
per ton for Runner peanuts
* $1,240.87 per ton for Spanish peanuts
* $1,253.26 per ton for Valencia peanuts
* $1,253.26 per ton
for Virginia peanuts These
prices become effective at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Time (ET), on Wednesday, Feb.
1,
2012, and
are used to determine the alternative loan repayment rates for marketing assistance
loans and to determine loan deficiency payments.
More
than 1,600 producers were able to fine-tune their farming
operations with information gained at the 36th
Annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show on Jan. 19, 2012, at the Albany
Civic Center in Albany, Ga. The show is sponsored by the Georgia
Peanut Commission in cooperation with the University of Georgia.
