Dec. 28—Editor's Note: Part two of a three-part series. TIFTON — From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit the land, ...
SYLVANIA, Ga. (WTOC) - It takes approximately 150 days in between planting and harvesting peanuts, something the Boyd family has been doing in Effingham and Screven counties for more than a century.
EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Fall in Georgia means one thing: peanut season is officially cracking. In Effingham and Screven counties, the Boyd family has been farming for generations. Ben Boyd has ...
BOWMAN, S.C. — “I love to pick ‘em,” says Josephine Mitchell, 91, of Bowman. “I was raised up on a peanut farm. I take care of this man (Bowman farmer Matt Benjamin) … because I took care of his ...