Innovation lights the fire for change and growth, and the peanut industry is ablaze! Today we highlight a few movers and shakers in the industry including a young farmer who’s growing organic peanuts and trying his hand at hemp; a Southwestern grower whose diversified operation won her family a peanut efficiency award; a third-generation family peanut business that’s exploring avenues like single-origin peanuts; a researcher who puts the peanut genome to work to make rapid improvements for growers; and a family who started a baby snack company to help prevent food allergies.  

 Featured in this episode are Sedrick Rowe, Georgia peanut grower; Lexi Floyd, Texas peanut grower; Marshall Rabil, director of sales and marketing at Hubs Peanuts; Peggy Ozias-Akins of UGA Tifton; and JJ Jaxon, founder of Mission Mighty Me. 

If you’d like to read more about these innovators: 

·       Marshall Rabil - How a Third-Generation Entrepreneur Is Helping his Family’s Peanut Business Grow and Adapt for the Future

·       Lexi Floyd - These 3 Young Women are Redefining What It Means to be a Farmer, and Shaping the Future of the Industry

·       Mission MightyMe: Taking Aim at Peanut Allergy Prevention, Mission MightyMe Launches New Infant Food

·       Peggy Ozias-Akins - In the Southeast, Public Breeding Program Supports Development of Diverse Cultivars to Benefit Growers & Protect Industry

·       Peggy Ozias-Akins - Peanut Genomics Bring the Future Closer: Q&A with Dr. Corley Holbrook

·       Sedrick Rowe – Part of Georgia’s inaugural group of licensed hemp growers, Sedrick Rowe hopes to inspire a new generation of young Black farmers