State’s peanut crop tops in U.S.
by Wally Northway Published: October 30,2011
Tags: drought, Mike Howell, Mississippi, Mississippi State University Extension Service, peanut-producing, peanuts, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Back in the summer, the peanut industry was facing a crisis. The extended drought had affected nearly half of the state’s peanut growers, and they were looking at a bad, perhaps disastrous, year. But, the same September rains from Tropical Storm Lee that saved pecan growers turned the season around for peanut farmers. Instead of [...] [...]
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