According to the information released on Monday, Alabama peanut growers produced an average of around 558,900,000 pounds of peanuts last year, with a large portion of that production coming from the Wiregrass.
Nearly one-fifth of the state’s peanuts came from Houston County, ranking number 1 in the state with 106,960,000 pounds produced, with Geneva coming in 2nd at 71,680,000 pounds. Henry County produced 56,520,000 pounds, which stood as the 4th highest producing peanut county in Alabama.Two southwestern Alabama counties, Baldwin County and Escambia County, ranked in at #3 and #5, producing 59.09 million pounds and 51.72 million pounds respectively.
The nearly 559 million pounds produced in Alabama, a little over 10% of U.S. peanut production, ranks second in the nation, with Georgia taking the top spot for its 2.9 billion pounds produced, or over 52% of the nation’s production. In total, the U.S. produced over 5.57 billion pounds of peanuts in 2022.also said the U.S. peanut crop in 2022 was 13% smaller than in 2021 due to lower acreage and yields, with smaller crops estimated in all U.S. states except for North Carolina.
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