Bigger Peanut Harvest Forecast
WASHINGTON - Oct 9/15 - SNS -- Peanut production is forecast at 6.32 billion pounds, up slightly from the September forecast and up 22% from last year's revised production of 5.19 billion pounds, according to the USDA.
Area for harvest is expected to total 1.58 million acres, unchanged from September but 20% higher than 2014.
Based on conditions as of October 1, the average yield for the United States is forecast at 3,997 pounds per acre, up 1 pound per acre from the September forecast and 74 pounds per acre above the revised 2014 average yield of 3,923 pounds per acre. If realized, production in Georgia, the largest peanut-producing State, will be a record high.
Peanut Area Planted and Harvested, Yield, and Production - States and
United States: 2014 and Forecasted October 1, 2015
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: Area planted : Area harvested
State :---------------------------------------------------------------
: 2014 1/ : 2015 : 2014 1/ : 2015
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: 1,000 acres
:
Alabama ........: 175.0 200.0 173.0 197.0
Florida ........: 175.0 185.0 167.0 172.0
Georgia ........: 600.0 790.0 589.0 780.0
Mississippi ....: 32.0 43.0 31.0 42.0
New Mexico .....: 4.5 5.0 4.5 5.0
North Carolina .: 94.0 90.0 93.0 89.0
Oklahoma .......: 12.0 10.0 11.0 9.0
South Carolina .: 112.0 113.0 108.0 108.0
Texas ..........: 130.0 165.0 127.0 161.0
Virginia .......: 19.0 19.0 19.0 19.0
:
United States ..: 1,353.5 1,620.0 1,322.5 1,582.0
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: Yield per acre : Production
State :---------------------------------------------------------------
: : 2015 : :
: 2014 1/ :-------------------------: 2014 1/ : 2015
: :September 1 : October 1 : :
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: ----------- pounds ----------- ---- 1,000 pounds ----
:
Alabama ........: 3,150 3,600 3,600 544,950 709,200
Florida ........: 4,000 3,600 3,400 668,000 584,800
Georgia ........: 4,135 4,400 4,400 2,435,515 3,432,000
Mississippi ....: 4,000 4,000 4,000 124,000 168,000
New Mexico .....: 3,500 3,000 3,100 15,750 15,500
North Carolina .: 4,320 3,800 4,000 401,760 356,000
Oklahoma .......: 4,000 4,100 3,800 44,000 34,200
South Carolina .: 3,800 3,400 3,400 410,400 367,200
Texas ..........: 3,620 3,500 3,600 459,740 579,600
Virginia .......: 4,450 3,800 4,000 84,550 76,000
:
United States ..: 3,923 3,996 3,997 5,188,665 6,322,500
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1/ Updated from previous estimate.
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