The gameday roasted peanut sale is back by popular demand.
The sale, which offers 2-pound cans of peanuts for $7 on weekends during football season, relaunches Saturday after a four-year freeze due to unreliable suppliers.
The peanuts can be purchased at McCarty Hall A two hours before home football games until the end of halftime and on Fridays during football season from 4 to 6 p.m. There’s also an online ordering option. Interested patrons can email agronomygrads@gmail.com.
The purpose of the sale is to raise money for undergraduate and graduate agronomy students and is presented by the Agronomy-Soils Club and the Agronomy Graduate Student Organization.
Diane Rowland, an associate agronomy professor at UF and an adviser for the sponsoring clubs, said she received requests from alumni and game attendees asking for the sale to return. Rowland said she decided to help with the sale because it’s also helping Florida’s economy, in which peanuts are a key crop. The state is one of the top producers of peanuts in the U.S., she said.
José López, 27, president of the Agronomy Graduate Student Organization, said the proceeds from the sale will help send agronomy students to an international agricultural convention in Tampa in November.
“Buying the peanuts is helping the agronomy students (obtain) the education that they’re trying to get,” he said.
A version of this story ran on page 3 on 10/4/2013 under the headline "UF clubs go nuts on gameday"
