In 2011, 2066 acres of peanuts were certified organic. Since around 3000 pounds of peanuts account for an acre, 6,198,000 pounds of peanuts produced and sold were organic. In 2020, over 6 billion total pounds of peanuts were produced in the US. Most of those peanuts were processed into peanut butter. In fact, the United States uses about half of its edible peanuts for peanut butter, with a total of $850 million in retail sales per year.