Peanuts - does anyone grow them and sell them? What's the legality?

[dmccarty]

Years ago I thought about growing peanuts for our own use since I was eating them quite a bit. Growing seems to be the easy part. The hard part was shelling the things which is why we never grew them. I did some research on shelling machines but I could not find one that would work and be cheap to buy. Figured peanuts cost peanuts, especially compared to what we would have to do to eat our own peanuts, so we just buy at the store.

Later,
Dan

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I like peanuts and peanut butter. But the darn stuff has gotten to be $3 a pound!!

I've grown them before also. REAL easy in the right soil/climate. Great for the soil. Easy to process. Good yields, over 3,000 lbs/ acre.

But when BRIEFLY looking into it I ran across few articles on doing it commercially.

In the Good Morning thread:


Apparently it's heavily regulated.

So does anyone here grow them and sell them?

If I plant a half acre and want to sell 1,000 lbs locally am I liable to be busted?

/edit - at 3,000 lbs/acre and $0.228/lb that's almost $700/acre.

Allotments were eliminated in 1981 in favor of a quota system. Quotas were eliminated in 2002 in favor of crop insurance subsidies. Peanuts are expensive to produce because of chemical costs. It may cost you $600/acre for chemicals, so making a profit can be tricky.

Peanuts | New Georgia Encyclopedia