1.   Both the House and Senate kill the national poundage quota to encourage greater U.S. peanut production.

2.   Both the House and Senate plans kill the national poundage quota to encourage greater U.S. peanut production.

3.   A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, he plans to introduce a bill in mid-July that would reduce price supports gradually and lift quotas on peanut production.

4.   A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, he plans to introduce a bill this month that would reduce price supports gradually and lift quotas on peanut production.

5.   Fiscal conservatives and urban Democrats say that restrictions on sugar and peanut production add tens of millions of dollars to consumer food costs each year.

6.   Learn what makes peanut products so popular at the National Peanut Board site, which includes recipes, nutritional tidbits and peanut production data.

7.   Nonetheless, the GAO has recommended that Congress change the program so government-set prices more closely resemble peanut production costs.

8.   This would likely entail eliminating future government subsidies for the program but continuing to limit peanut production and imports to keep prices up for growers.

9.   West Texans are drawing peanut production out of traditional areas such as Central Texas by purchasing their government quotas.