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The growing market for peanuts isn’t in candy bars or sports stadiums but in cooking oil and renewable fuel. A Texas A&M AgriLife team is exploring avenues to help develop this new pipeline for producing high-oil peanuts.Through a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture three-year, $499,000 grant, Texas A&M AgriLife Research will lead the development of high-oil peanut cultivars and explore the economics of establishing the high-oil peanut market.“We will be working with both growers and industry partners on developing economic models for the establishment of a totally new industry,” said John Cason, Ph.D., AgriLife Research ...

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