2025 Research Reports 2025 Research reports The Georgia Peanut Breeding Program Bill Branch, UGA University of Georgia Agronomic Research & Extension Programs to Address Economic Sustainability of Peanut Production Scott Monfort, UGA University of Georgia Cooperative Extension County Agent Programs Scott Monfort, UGA Appling & Bacon County Will Brown & Zack Williams Berrien County Ben Reeves Bulloch County Bill Tyson Burke County Cliff Collins Coffee County Ashley Smith Colquitt County Jeremy Kichler Cook County Tucker Price Early County Kelsea Hancock Lowndes County Joshua Dawson Mitchell County Brian Hayes Seminole County Justin Odom Marion, Webster Sumter & Terrell County Braxton Crews, Seth MCAllister, Bill Starr & Whitney Spray Tattnall County Aubrey Shirley & Jonathan Smith Georgia Peanut Achievement Club for Recognizing Whole Farm Peanut Yields Scott Monfort, UGA Development of Seed-applied and in Furrow Treatments to Ensure the Establishment of Peanut Stands in Georgia Clemen Oliveira, UGA Improving Soil Health Using Root-Knot Nematode Resistance in Peanut Principal Investigator Lesley Schumacher, UGA Herbicide (Valor) Injury Assessment and Recovery of Peanuts Under a Variable Rate Irrigation Pivot Wes Porter, UGAChance Warren, UGA The Impact of Variable Soil Water Tension Irrigation Thresholds on Georgia Peanut Production Wes Porter, UGAHannah Grubbs, UGA Rootworm Population Dynamics and Management Mark Abney, UGA Assessment of Prohexadione Calcium Tank-Mixed with Postemergence Herbicides Tim Grey, UGASamantha Bowen, UGA The Impact of Seed Treatments on Peanut Germination and Viability Over Time During Storage in Controlled and Ambient Temperatures Tim Grey, UGASamantha Bowen, UGA Development and Evaluation of Cultivars with Disease Resistances to Increase On-Farm Profitability Corley Holbrook, USDA Foundational genotyping for TSWV resistance Jason Wallace, UGA Long-term Germplasm Enhancement and Development of DNA Molecular Marker Resources for Peanut Nino Brown, UGA Impact of Seed Size and Composition on Peanut Seedling Vigor: High-Throughput Phenotyping Approaches Ved Parkash, UGA Evaluation and Development of High-Throughput Phenotyping Technologies for Peanut Javier Rodriguez-Sanchez, UGA Breeding for physiological drought and heat tolerance in Georgia peanut: from cell to whole plant Cristiane Pilon, UGA Optimizing Aspergillus flavus Biocontrol Application Methods for Improved Efficacy in Reducing Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut Jake Fountain, UGA Precision breeding for multiple disease resistance Peggy Ozias-Akins, UGA Investigating Peanut Seed Meters and Planting Parameters for Maximizing Peanut Emergence Glen Rains, UGA Wes Porter, UGA Adding an Option for Later-Maturing Peanut Cultivars to SmartIrrigation CropFit George Vellidis, UGA Effect of In-Furrow and Foliar Insecticide Treatments on Tomato Spotted Wilt and Yield in New TSWV Resistant Cultivars and Breeding Lines Albert Culbreath, UGA Adaptation of New Fungicides and Application Strategies for Control of Early & Late Leaf Spot of Peanut Albert Culbreath, UGA Comparing in-furrow insecticides in single and twin row pattern at different plant populations. Scott Tubbs, UGAMark Abney, UGA Cropping sequence and row pattern adjustments in rotation with peanut Scott Tubbs, UGA Night Owl: A Low-Cost Smart Drone System for Defending Peanut Farms from Nighttime Wildlife Intrusion Taeyeong Choi, Kennesaw State University Development of an Automated and High-throughput Peanut Maturity Evaluation System with Computer Vision and AI-assisted Technologies Zhihang Song, UGA Development of A. stenosperma, A. batizocoi and A. valida-derived advanced lines with strong resistance to LLS and rust Soraya Bertioli, UGA New Sources of RKN resistance from the Wild Species A. stenosperma: germplasm release, cultivar development, and pyramiding with foliar disease resistance David Bertioli, UGA Finding Novel, Non-Food Applications of Peanuts and By-Products Atanu Biswas, USDA-ARS Determining and monitoring physiological responses to abiotic stress using high resolution hyperspectral imaging Lorena Lacerda, UGA The Effects of Unblanched Normal-Oleic Peanuts in the Diets of Layers on Performance, Egg Quality, and Nutritional Content Ondulla Toomer, NC State University Economic Feasibility and Performance of Pasture-Raised Broiler Chicken in Peanut-Based Farming Systems Samuel Mwangi, NC State University Utilizing Peanut Oil in Oil-Based Paints and Stains Branson Ritchie, UGA Prevalence of peanut viruses in addition to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and their impact on TSWV resistance in peanut Babu Srinivasan, UGA Presymptomatic and Early Detection of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) in Peanut Plants Dan Sabo, Georgia Tech Development of peanut varieties with stem rot resistance and potentially more synchronous maturity using marker assisted selection Akshaya Biswal, UGA Biomarker-based evaluation of white mold (WHM) resistance in peanuts Joonhyuk Suh, UGA Peanut Enterprise Budget and Economic Analysis Initiative for Enhancing Profitability Yangxuan Liu, UGA The Peanut Institute Foundation: 2026 Peanut Nutrition Research Update The Peanut Institute Foundation The Peanut Research Foundation Keith Rucker