The SPGC blog is ready for the 14th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference being held Thursday through Sunday, once again at the Edgewater Beach Resort, Panama City Beach, Fla.

This will be the 5th year that the annual conference of peanut growers from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi will be covered start to finish on this blog in photos, audio and video.

The three-day event provides farmers an opportunity to learn more about the industry and issues affecting them while also enjoying a relaxing time at the beach. This year’s conference general sessions provide farmers with information on how the peanut industry is helping fight world hunger, legislative updates, uncontrollable costs on the farm and peanut research. In addition to the conference sessions the event focuses on the family by offering a ladies program and a golf tournament.

The legislative update will be of particular interest this year with Congress in the midst of negotiating a new farm bill and one of the major players in the process will be attending SPGC. House Agriculture Committee chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) will be able to enlighten conference goers on the current status of farm legislation and what might happen next.

I will be the SPGC blogger once again this year as Chuck has back to back events and he is jealous that I will be seeing one of our favorite groups from college that we never did see. Atlanta Rhythm Section will be entertaining the peanut growers on Saturday night, courtesy of Syngenta. I’m pretty excited about that!

SPGC is a great industry meeting that we enjoy attending every year – just the right mix of work and play! Check out the SPGC blog for all the highlights.