Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 3/29/19


Peanut breeding at North Carolina State University began 90 years ago in 1929, when P.H. Kime started developing peanut varieties for the Tar Heel State. There was no formal peanut breeding program at that time. Kime was an agronomist who travelled the state and collected different peanut plants that were being grown on farms across North Carolina and brought the plants back to campus in Raleigh and made selections from the plants he collected.

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