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Participants in this year’s Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City Beach, Florida, learned more about two specific products from top level sponsor Syngenta. “Syngenta does a very nice job of continuing to invest R&D dollars into research, bringing new products to the market,” says Lyle Stewart, district sales manager for Syngenta. “Over the past three years we’ve brought two … Read More

In its second year as a sponsor at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference, FMC shared information about Prevathon and Lucento with growers in attendance. FMC Regional Tech Service Manager Bruce Stripling says the company is excited about getting the first applications of Lucento out this season and visiting with growers about how it will fit into their programs. “The growers … Read More

BASF shared more information about a new fungicide product with participants at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference. Technical Service Representative Abraham Fulmer says Revysol is a revolutionary product in a lot of ways. “This product has the ability to conform and flex and be more plastic, so to speak, to bind to that target site on a molecular basis,” says … Read More

Farmers Business Network (FBN) joined as a sponsor of this year’s Southern Peanut Growers Conference. The company does things a bit differently, says FBN Account Executive Jared Moore. “The model of how we do business is we want to cut the middle men out that are stacking on the amount of money they are paying for products and take farm … Read More

Valent USA presented its Valor Award at the Southeast Peanut Growers Conference, recognizing an individual or group that has made significant contributions to the peanut industry. This year’s recipient is the American Peanut Shellers, an association that is celebrating 100 years of history in 2019. “They’ve been a partner with so many different groups and they’ve been creative and innovative … Read More

SunSouth Deere dealers were among those in attendance at this year’s Southern Peanut Growers Conference. SunSouth has 21 convenient locations in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. “Being involved with peanut growers is another way for us to really branch out into specialty crops, especially within our southern farmers. Our tractors, tillage tools and other units of equipment are really what these … Read More

Vantage South and Vantage Southeast both serve the peanut growing region with precision solutions and agronomic services, and both have been long-time sponsors of the SPGC. Vantage Southeast is focused on Georgia, Florida and South Carolina growing regions. Travis Kelley says their team always enjoys coming to the SPGC. “It’s been important for us,” said Kelley. “We don’t consider it … Read More

We met UPI and Alexis Bromley last year when they were brand new to the SPGC family and they were thrilled to come back for the 20th anniversary. “It’s a great opportunity to talk to growers from several different states to see what their needs are in the marketplace,” said Bromley. The UPI portfolio for peanut growers includes Moccasin™ and … Read More

Farmers rely on Farm Credit year after year and the Southern Peanut Growers Conference is fortunate to have six regional Farm Credit financial service providers as sponsors. AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgSouth Farm Credit Farm Credit of Florida Farm Credit of Northwest Florida First South Farm Credit Southwest Georgia Farm Credit Jack Hittinger with Farm Credit of Northwest Florida says peanuts … Read More