Peanut Seed Size

Mar 24, 2015

By Ronnie Barentine

Why does it matter what peanut seed size is? Well, it matters to the shelling plant so they can set equipment and make plans. It matters to the candy makers.

It matters to farmers, now, as we plan on the amount of seed to plant. We know that we want 6 seed per foot of row so if we know our peanut variety then we can plan for the amount of seed that we’ll need at planting time. Here’s a good chart from the 2015 UGA Peanut Production Guide. Check with your seed provider for more details on seed size.

This chart is great because Scott Monfort, UGA Peanut Scientist, has included a column that gives us how many pounds we will need to plant per acre at each seed size. Chances are that our seed won’t be exactly that size but it should be close.

Source: uga.edu

Video: Seeing the Whole Season: How Continuous Crop Modeling Is Changing Breeding

Plant breeding has long been shaped by snapshots. A walk through a plot. A single set of notes. A yield check at the end of the season. But crops do not grow in moments. They change every day.

In this conversation, Gary Nijak of AerialPLOT explains how continuous crop modeling is changing the way breeders see, measure, and select plants by capturing growth, stress, and recovery across the entire season, not just at isolated points in time.

Nijak breaks down why point-in-time observations can miss critical performance signals, how repeated, season-long data collection removes the human bottleneck in breeding, and what becomes possible when every plot is treated as a living data set. He also explores how continuous modeling allows breeding programs to move beyond vague descriptors and toward measurable, repeatable insights that connect directly to on-farm outcomes.

This conversation explores:

• What continuous crop modeling is and how it works

• Why traditional field observations fall short over a full growing season

• How scale and repeated measurement change breeding decisions

• What “digital twins” of plots mean for selection and performance

• Why data, not hardware, is driving the next shift in breeding innovation As data-driven breeding moves from research into real-world programs, this discussion offers a clear look at how seeing the whole season is reshaping value for breeders, seed companies, and farmers, and why this may be only the beginning.