Virginia peanut growers are hoping this year’s crop will be 26 percent larger than last year’s, a great recovery from recent years of low production. “We’re looking at the largest per-acre yield for ...

According to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia peanut growers anticipate a 6.6 percent increase in their harvest this year, totaling 78 million pounds. Producers ...

They’re in grocery store displays, in gourmet shops, in your stack of Christmas gifts, next to your favorite recliner. Their shells litter the floors of chain restaurants. Food magazines feature them ...

Peanuts, the movie: Wakefield-area filmmaker Amy Drewry has finished a one-hour documentary on Virginia's peanut country, funded with nearly $200,000 in donations from sources including Virginia ...

ROCKVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia is known for its peanuts, but one local man is also putting it on the map for its peanut butter. Andrew Broocker started Reginald’s Homemade a little more than five ...

RICHMOND – The Virginia House of Delegates has voted to extend the state’s excise tax on peanuts – a move that will help promote the sale and marketing of one of the commonwealth’s top cash crops.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Virginia peanuts are a defined thing with a distinct taste: They’re the largest peanuts available, and are first blanched and ...

When Wegmans Food Markets introduced its Virginia Peanuts, it sought to make sure shoppers knew they weren't like most others. The packaging tells them they're water-blanched, which reduces the fat ...

FRANKLIN, Va. (WDBJ) - Virginia peanuts are the largest and crunchiest of all types grown in the U.S. Not only are they grown in the Commonwealth, but North Carolina and South Carolina. They’re grown ...

WAKEFIELD, Va., Aug. 28 -- This year alone, agricultural extension economist Mike Roberts has advised 11 Virginia peanut farmers about bankruptcy, told 10 more how to get out of farming and heard from ...

I‘m a card-carrying member of the Peanut Club. I like cocktail peanuts, I like them roasted, I like them honey roasted, I like Spanish peanuts (what happened to Spanish peanuts? They seem to have ...

With the invention of peanut coffee, fifth generation peanut farmer James Harrell found a way to combine in one product the rich history and future of his hometown of Suffolk, Va., which as the ...