Peanut crop dream being revived as early research in northern Australia shows promise

A trial is underway on farms across northern Australia to give peanut growers an extra revenue stream. (Flickr: Glass jar of peanut butter, Marco Verch, CC2.0)

The peanut industry's long-held dream of growing a 100 per cent Australian crop has been revived, thanks to a new trial to find multiple uses for the crop. 

CQ University (CQU) researchers are in the second year of a trial to use the top of the peanut plant as livestock feed and the peanuts themselves as human foods like peanut butter.