date:Dec 19, 2013
acre, much of which usually comes from irrigation, he said. But given pumping costs and water table levels and the need for higher quality, growers also rely on rainfall to supplement irrigation, and August was drier and hotter than normal.
Still, Woodward expects yields to be in the range of 3,800 to 4,200 pounds per acre.
Still a little above-average year, and much better off than weve been the last two years, he said.
Peanut production in Texas peaked in the 1990s, with as much as 300,000