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Acreage, yields equal state's best peanut year.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-AUG-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Acreage, yields equal state's best peanut year.(Mississippi Crop Report)

Article Excerpt
STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State University Extension Service agronomists credit good management of diseases and a recent doubling of peanut acreage for what they expect to be Mississippi's largest peanut crop ever.

Still with fewer acres than most peanut-producing states, Mississippi growers have 20,000 acres in rotation plans with cotton and corn, primarily in the state's southern counties.

Mike Howell, Extension area agronomic crops agent based in Covington County, said regular rains have helped a late-planted crop come on strong in recent weeks. Farmers have followed a successful...

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