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News Articles: peanuts

Jeremy Robinson (center) and Aliyah Hill perform last checks on packets of Mana Nutrition emergency food supplements for children before packaging them in the nonprofit’s factory in Fitzgerald, Ga. “We save lives,” Robinson said of his part of the work that has saved millions of children globally.

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  • Economy

The Georgia factory making emergency food for children worldwide is back working for USAID

Mana Nutrition turns Georgia peanuts into a paste that has saved millions of children's lives around the world. The nonprofit's on again/off again relationship with USAID is back on.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A Mana facility in Fitzgerald, Ga., is shown in 2022.

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  • News

What is USAID's impact on Georgia? This peanut product manufacturer says it's 'massive'

The United States Agency for International Development remains in turmoil as federal government agencies are targeted, with suppliers and recipients awash in confusion. Georgia farmers and peanut product manufacturers could be affected.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Kristi York Wooten
Peanut Brigade organizer Dot Padgett worked alongside the Carters from Plains to the White House. She spoke with GPB's Orlando Montoya about her experience over decades of work.

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  • News

Peanut Brigade organizer remembers her work with the Carter campaign

Peanut Brigade organizer Dot Padgett worked alongside the Carters from Plains to the White House. She spoke with GPB's Orlando Montoya about her experience over decades of work.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
A close up photo of a peanut

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  • Children's Health

A new shot can protect children and adults from severe allergic reactions

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug that can lessen serious and sometimes deadly allergic reactions in children and adults with food allergies.

March 04, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Comic strip Snoopy first started rocking a puffer jacket in the 1980s. A plush version of the bundled-up beagle is flying off the shelves in 2023.

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  • Pop Culture

Gen Z is suddenly obsessed with Snoopy — and not just because he's cute

Gen Z is feeling the love for Snoopy, who is flying off store shelves and going viral on TikTok. Here's why teens and twenty-somethings are newly obsessed (not that there has to be a reason).

December 18, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The <em>Peanuts</em> gang celebrates Thanksgiving, but why is Franklin by himself on one side of the table?

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  • Pop Culture

'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' turns 50 this year. How has it held up?

CBS first aired the televised holiday special in 1973. The message still shines, but some characters and scenes feel a little dated.

November 22, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • News

'Unusual' weather delays peanut harvest in Georgia

Georgia’s peanut harvest is later than usual. Farmers say it’s all due to the weather over the past several months

November 01, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
tractor in peanut field

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  • Weather

'It's going to have impacts': How Georgia farmers should brace for Idalia

The most recent hurricane to make landfall in Georgia was Hurricane Michael in October 2018. Farms in Georgia lost billions of dollars after top crops were ravaged by the storm. 

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Cartoonist Charles Schulz poses with a sketch of Snoopy in his office in Santa Rosa, Calif. Schulz, who died shortly after his retirement in 2000, would have turned 100 on Nov. 26.

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  • Pop Culture

'Peanuts' still brings comfort and joy, 100 years after Charles Schulz's birth

While Schulz stipulated that the strip would end with him, his iconic characters live on. His widow, Jeannie Schulz, says people still get comfort from the comic because "it talks about humanity."

November 28, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the <em>Peanuts</em> in 1968.

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  • Arts & Life

A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

July 28, 2022
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
The <em>Peanuts</em> characters reminded readers of the importance of Title IX at a moment when many schools and athletic programs were resistant to it.

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  • Arts & Life

'Peanuts,' one of the world's most popular cartoons, pushed for Title IX in the 1970s

Peanuts was a place where female athletes saw their presence on the playing field explicitly supported.

June 26, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Henry Ssendagire, a Ugandan master's student working with CAES virologist Mike Deom, investigates aphids that carry viruses causing groundnut rosette disease, a serious peanut disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • News

Georgia's Peanut Innovation Lab works to feed a continent

A program to alleviate hunger by helping farmers in developing countries grow more peanuts is nearing the end of its funding.

May 12, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
For the 12th year, Jeffrey Bützer, T. T. Mahony and Mike Beshera will perform Vince Guaraldi's score from 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at venues in Atlanta, Savannah and Woodstock this December.

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  • Music

Atlanta Musicians Jazz Up The Holiday Season Across Georgia with 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

Like the endearing story presented in 1965's animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas , the music from the feature has endured as a holiday classic....

December 06, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
After Hurricane Michael destroyed much of Georgia's cotton crop last year, now drought-like weather is threatening the new crop, which is generally planted in May.

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  • Environment

Amid Trade War, Georgia Farmers Face Drought And Financial Doubt

From the devastation of Hurricane Michael to trade tariffs, Georgia farmers have faced months of uncertainty. After stalled disaster and tariff aid...

June 03, 2019
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
Chef Nolan Wynn's savory peanut brittle gives a sweet, salty and spicy topping to a papaya salad now available on Banshee's menu.

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  • Food

Main Ingredient: Chef Nolan Wynn On Peanuts

"On Second Thought" continues its Main Ingredient series in which a chef tells us about his or her essential Southern ingredient. For Chef Nolan Wynn,...

March 26, 2019
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  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
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