Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 9/17/19


When it comes to the supply and demand situation, peanuts are “still trying to right the ship from the 2017 crop which was absolutely huge,” according to Dell Cotton, manager of the Peanut Growers Cooperative Marketing Association and executive secretary of the Virginia Peanut Growers Association. Providing a market update at the Peanut Variety Quality Evaluation (PVQE) Tour at the Taylor Slade farm in Williamston, N.C., Sept. 12, Cotton said the exceptionally large 2017 peanut crop was almost two crops together in one year which has really impacted the market since then.

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