FPPA NEWS
2025 FPPA Scholarships
The Florida Peanut Producers Association is pleased to announce the opening of its 2025 Scholarship Award Program, effective February 26, 2025. Florida Peanut Producers Association is a grower check-off association that represents the interests of Florida’s peanut producers through research, promotion, and educational programs. 2025 Scholarship News Release FPPA Scholarship 2025
2025 Peanut Growers Conference
The 26th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference will be held July 23-25, 2025, at the Edgewater Beach Resort Conference Center, Panama City Beach, Florida. The three-day event informs farmers about peanut production, legislative issues, marketing, and promotions. To register and to see more details. https://southernpeanutfarmers.org/southern-peanut-growers-conference/
USDA to provide approximately $6 billion to commodity and special crop producers impacted by 2020 and 2021 natural disasters
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon begin receiving emergency relief payments totaling approximately $6 billion through the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) new Emergency Relief Program (ERP) to offset crop yield and value losses. “For over two years, farmers and ranchers across the country have been hard … Read More