2013 Crop: What To Watch For

摘要

Weather conditions drive production practices offering producers a variety of issues to focus on. As in many areas of the peanut belt, Maria Balota, assistant professor of crop physiology at the Virginia Tech Tidewater Area Research Center, says thatVirginia farmers planted later this year in comparison to the norm because of excessive rain. In fact, in several places, rains of up to 12 inches a few days after planting made farmers have to replant. "In Southampton County, for example, 200 acres of peanut were replanted because of this. But now, peanuts are up and growing nicely."