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  • Peanut Consumption may be linked to lower risk of death from heart disease

    Reuters reports that research published online in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that peanut consumption may be linked to a lower risk of death from heart disease. TIME reports that investigators “examined three large groups involving more than 70,000 black and white men and women living in the U.S. and more than 130,000 men and women…

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  • Q&A with David Jordan: PMIL’s Ghana Peanut Value Chain Interventions Project Lead Scientist

    David L. Jordan, Crop Science Professor and Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University (NCSU), is the Lead Scientist for the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab's (PMIL) “Ghana Peanut Value Chain Interventions Project: Using Applied Research and Technology to Minimize Aflatoxin Contamination and Increase Production, Quality and Marketing of Peanut in Ghana.” In addition to leading…

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  • IBP Training Brings Crop Breeders to University of Georgia

    IBP Training Brings Crop Breeders to University of Georgia February 26, 2015 Writer: Christy Fricks, christyfricks@uga.edu Contact: Dave Hoisington, davehois@uga.edu On February 24-26th the Integrated Breeding Platform held a training workshop for the Breeding Management System (BMS) at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The training was hosted by the Feed…

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  • David Jordan: Weigh Costs of Production

    PMIL Lead Scientist David Jordan wrote an article for the column “Peanut Pointers” for the February edition of the Peanut Grower.  Jordan’s article focused on the importance of weighing the costs of production.

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  • Science AAAS News: Eating Peanuts Prevents Allergy

    Eating Peanut Prevents Allergy: Science AAAS News By: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Published 23 February 2015 It may sound radical, but it works: Eating peanuts slashes the chance of a peanut allergy, at least in children at high risk of developing one, a much-anticipated study finds. The results are likely to catapult a long-standing theory—that ingesting potential…

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  • Georgia PB&J Day Set for March 3rd at State Capitol

    The Georgia Peanut Commission will be celebrating National Peanut Month in March by hosting the PB&J Day, March 3, 2015, at the State Capitol. Attendees will have an array of samples from PB&J's, Grilled PB&J's, Hardy Farms Boiled Peanuts, Fried Georgia Peanuts, peanut candy products and more.

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  • Mycotoxin Survey Invitation: Capability and Capacity Questionnaire of Mycotoxin Testing Facilities

    The Feed the Future Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) invites and encourages all Lead Scientists, Collaborators, Feed the Future Innovation Labs and Partnering Institutions involved in mycotoxin research, to invite their collaborating laboratories to participate in a survey, “Capability and Capacity Questionnaire of Mycotoxin Testing Facilities.” The objective of the survey is to learn…

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