Georgia Peanut Bank Week and FSA Offices Reopen
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson and this is your Agribusiness Update.
**The Georgia Peanut Commission and Georgia Bankers Association joined forces this week to promote the 49th annual Georgia Peanut Bank Week.
The 2025 theme, “Peanuts and Pennies: Growing Georgia Together,” showcased the affordable and nutritious peanut.
Recent studies show regularly eating peanuts can reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cancer.
Individuals can reap these benefits with about a handful of peanuts or 2 tablespoons of peanut butter daily.
**The Trump administration will release about $3 billion in assistance to farmers despite the government shutdown.
Administration officials told CBS News, the USDA resumed operations yesterday at the Farm Service Agency, which runs financial assistance and loan programs for farmers.
A USDA spokesman says President Trump is committed to supporting America's farmers and ranchers and this action will release billions in assistance for farmers that Democrats have held up for three weeks.
**There’s a crisis in U.S. farm country as recent trade policies and reactions from other countries have wreaked havoc on our commodity markets.
Crop prices are plummeting, input costs are projected to reach record levels, and the number of farm bankruptcies is rapidly rising.
The National Farmers Union urges everyone to tell Congress and President Trump that family farmers need immediate economic assistance and reforms that restore fairness in U.S. agriculture.
