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 …
National Peanut Festival
It’s just about time for the National Peanut Festival. Farmers can apply for a ticket to Farmer Day which is November 2. The Festival runs October 30 – November 8. Approximately half of the peanuts grown in the United States are grown within a 100-mile radius of Dothan, Alabama. The National Peanut Festival (NPF) — the nation’s largest peanut festival …
More Peanut Butter for Hungry Georgians
The Georgia peanut industry donated another 14,112 jars of peanut butter today in celebration of Hunger Action Month in September. This donation was made to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank. “We are very appreciative of all the donations and efforts that have made this donation come to fruition. This donation will supply needed food protein to thousands of households …
Follow the Peanut Tour Blog
The 23rd Annual Georgia Peanut Tour is being held this week to provide producers with the latest information on peanuts while giving a first-hand view of industry infrastructure from production and handling to processing and utilization. But, for those who can’t be there – they can follow along on the Georgia Peanut Tour blog. For the second year in a …
Georgia Peanut Industry Helps Feed Hungry
The Georgia peanut industry helped to fill the coffers of the state’s food banks – and the stomachs of hungry children – with a hefty donation this week. In honor of Hunger Action Month, representatives from the Georgia Peanut Commission, National Peanut Buying Points Association, American Peanut Shellers Association and Georgia Farm Bureau along with fourteen other individuals, organizations and …
Peaut Butter Creativity
Peanut butter is one of my favorite foods. I’m also choosy enough to choose Jif. Now Jif has a contest going that will award some college scholarships. So get your peanut butter creativity going. Adding some creativity to mundane lunch routines could have a huge payoff. Jif Peanut Butter, the trusted peanut butter of choosy Moms, is accepting entries for …
Redfish Seminar at Peanut Conference
A new addition this year to the Southern Peanut Growers Conference first day fun was a Redfish Sport Fishing Seminar, presented by Redfish Riviera Outfitters. Steve Bailey with Redfish Riviera and Captain Daniel Snapp with Grassy Flats Charters, in colorful shirts promoting peanuts, presented tips and tricks of the fishing trade to peanut growers and their families. Listen to an …
American Peanut Council President Honored
The Webster definition of “valor” is “strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness” and that was required this year more than any other for the peanut industry. In recognition for his strength and leadership of the peanut industry during a time of crisis, American Peanut Council president Patrick Archer received the Valor Award, …
Peanuts on Panama City Beach
Hello from Panama City Beach, Florida and the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. The theme of the 11th annual conference is really a tribute to the U.S. peanut industry for overcoming adversity in 2009. Everyone knows that this year has been a tough one for the industry, starting out with the salmonella issue in January. But, Georgia Peanut Commission executive director …