Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 10/30/20


Have you ever enjoyed a sunny summer afternoon shelling peanuts at a ballgame? What about those salted cocktail peanuts you find at the grocery store? Or maybe you’re a connoisseur of pre-shelled gourmet peanuts?

As it turns out, any in-shell or cocktail peanut products you may come across, regardless of where you are in the country, likely were grown in North Carolina.

Among the ranks of proud peanut producing states, North Carolina comes in at No. 5 nationally, growing more than 440 million pounds of peanuts valued at roughly $100 million annually. With that many peanuts, you could make about 3.9 billion peanut butter sandwiches. Hope you have enough jelly!

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