Texas A&M AgriLife to develop market for high-oil peanuts
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.
The team has already collaborated with Chevron Technical Center to research the ability to use peanut oil as a source for lower-carbon-intensity fuel.
