Link Between Malawi in East Africa and Halifax County in North Carolina Peanut Notes No. 9 2025
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Collapse ▲I am currently on the way home from Malawi following work associated with the Peanut Innovation Lab (USAID funded at University of Georgia.) While walking through the library at Chitadze Agricultural Research Station, I stumbled on a few shelves of information from the United States. The following images are from the building and the magazine article in Peanut Farmer Magazine with an interview of Tom Harris from Halifax County. Arthur Whitehead is in the article as well. I’m not sure, but it seemed like it has been years since this magazine was touched. Like many libraries and paper copies, utility has decreased because of access to electronic media through the internet.
I suspect Arthur and Tom did not know at the time that their thoughts and perspectives would be shared globally to this extent. If Arthur had known this, he might have claimed this as an extension impact while he was still employed! Arthur has a young, sporty look and Tom has always worn that hat well.
Since starting my career at NC State in 1996, I’ve had a lot of good conversations with Tom, Wayne Short at NRCS, George Naderman, and many others. While I have been cautious about reduced tillage peanuts, those discussions and perspectives helped me step out of my “historical” mindset about tillage systems and peanuts. They helped me focus some of my efforts on comparisons of tillage systems. The conversations helped me ask myself, what are you missing?
I’ll provide a few more comments and sets of data from recent findings related to this topic in future Peanut Notes.
I’m not sure who in Malawi read the article, but I was reminded that talking about issues and sharing knowledge are important as we try to progress in our understanding of a topic. It doesn’t mean you always give in or change your perspective (although you might,) but it does mean that you are more informed and you might be able to identify something you missed that would make your perspective more informed and better for the next discussion you have. Sorry, this is all me talking to me.
When I walk around Williams Hall on the NC State campus in the coming days, I’ll be reminded of this library/museum in Malawi when I happen by one of Dr. Bob Patterson’s “storage areas.” I thought about him and those areas on my visit this past week. I hope he will see the humor in this statement if it gets back to him.
You will notice that the magazine article came out before the National Peanut Board became an entity. This article is approaching an age of 30 years. I’d only been on the job since the previous September.
