Anyone who thinks a PB&J is boring or just for kids should try it with Bananas Foster or Chocolate Panini, or maybe strawberries and basil. That’s just a few of the ten winning recipes in the Southern Peanut Growers “PB&J My Way” contest. The contest kicked off during March Peanut Month, pledging to donate one jar of peanut butter to …
Wrapping Up Peanut Conference
Don Koehler, Executive Director, Georgia Peanut Commission, helped me wrap things up for the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. As of this point in time everyone has a free afternoon before our concluding dinner this evening. I’ll be adding some photos from that event to the photo album. You can also find another set of photos taken by Joy Carter, Georgia …
Peanut Farmer Family Tradition
It’s always good to hear from our presenters and sponsors but what about our growers? Let’s find out what a peanut farmer thinks about the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. I spoke with Steve “Beaver” Yoder, Altha, FL. Steve brings his family as many peanut farmers do. They look forward to it as a “tradition” and it shows his children what …
Valor Award Presented at Southern Peanut Growers Conference
Each year the Southern Peanut Growers Conference presents a Valor Award to someone in the industry. This year the award was presented to Leslie Wagner, Executive Director, Southern Peanut Growers. The award was presented by John Altom, Valent. I spoke with Leslie prior to the award and you can listen to our conversation below. So congrats to Leslie because she’s …
Peanut Industry Looks Healthy In Florida
One of the first people I met at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference was Ken Barton, Executive Director, Florida Peanut Producers Association. FPPA is one of the state peanut groups that puts on the conference. Ken provided me with an overview of the conference in a short interview. He says the content seems to get better each year. The registration …
Panama City Beach Welcomes Peanut Growers
I don’t know what I expected after all the horror stories in the news about the Gulf oil spill but it wasn’t crowded immaculate white beach here in Panama City Beach. But that’s what we’ve got as the 12th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference gets underway. No oil marring the coastline here. I drove along Hwy. 98 coming in from …
Southern Peanut Growers Conference This Week
ZimmComm will be blogging the Southern Peanut Growers Conference once again this year in Panama City Beach, FL. Cindy has “owned” this job for the last couple years but not this year. I get the tough duty of heading to my home state to blog about all things peanuts. I’m taking a slight detour along the way to a Gulf …
Your PB&J Recipes Can Help Feed the Hungry
How do you like your PB&J? Since March is National Peanut Month, Southern Peanut Growers (SPG) is celebrating with “PB&J My Way,” a national recipe contest looking for nutty new takes on the classic PB&J. For every peanut butter sandwich recipe received, SPG will donate a jar of peanut butter to hunger relief organization Feeding America. No matter how you …
Peanut Butter for Haiti
The nation’s peanut industry is helping out the relief effort in Haiti by donating high protein peanut butter and you can support that effort with your own donations. Peanut butter is especially good for emergency situations like this because it’s a great source of nourishment that needs no refrigeration. The peanut industry has already donated $108,500 in contributions and four …
Donating Georgia Peanut Butter
The Georgia Peanut Commission has helped feed hungry people by donating lots of peanut butter this summer. To tell us all about it at Sunbelt Ag Expo, Executive Director, Don Koehler, spoke at this morning’s media breakfast to give us an update on the “Peanut Proud and Feeding Georgia” campaign. Sunbelt Ag Expo 2009 Photo Album AgWired coverage of Sunbelt …