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This Country Grows The Most Peanuts In The World (And It's Not America) By Garrett Palm Oct. 11, 2025 6:39 pm EST

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The peanut feels very American. We had a peanut farmer for a president; the invention of peanut butter is often credited to an American; so it seems safe to guess that we grow the most peanuts in the world. That guess would be wrong — very wrong. The U.S. is only number four in the world when it comes to growing peanuts, with 2.5 million metric tons produced here in the latest finalized reporting of the worldwide production of the crop by World Population Review . The top producer, coming in at 18.3 million metric tons, is China.

Peanuts aren't even native to the U.S. A hybrid of two other plants, they were domesticated by ancie

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