; Whereas, in 1996, the George Washington Carver Statue was dedicated to honor the famed peanut pioneer and first guest speaker at the National Peanut Festival; Whereas the National Peanut Festival moved to its current home at the fairgrounds on United States Highway 231 South in Dothan, Alabama, in 2010; Whereas peanuts remain a significant and valuable cash crop grown in the United States, which are— (1) valued at over $1,000,000,000; (2) consumed by American children and adults—roughly six pounds of peanut products per person each year—as both snack nuts and candy; and (3) used to create peanut oil, a high-quality cooking oil that Americans consume at 133,000,000 metric tons annually; Whereas approximately half of all peanuts grown in the United States originate within a 100-mile radius of Dothan, Alabama; and Whereas, in 2018, Alabama peanut farmers, of which there are close to 900— (1) produced runner peanuts, the variety that makes up 80 percent of all United States peanut production; (2) harvested 189,000 acres of peanuts; and (3) produced 400,000,000 pounds of peanuts valued at $118,000,000: Now therefore, be it