Georgia Grown Moment – Being a Peanut Farmer

Randall Weiseman August 29, 2016 Field Crops, GA Grown Moment, General, Georgia, Peanuts

Wes Shannon

For this week’s Georgia Grown Moment, Wes Shannon, a peanut farmer in Tift County, Georgia talks about some of the things that make him proud to produce one of Georgia’s top crops.

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