Well peanut farmers are trying to get the rest of this crop planted in. Only about 65 percent of the peanuts were in the ground this week and the conditions are too wet in Georgia, Florida and Alabama to finish right now. We are showing on exports that they are trying to increase exports because of the pileup of peanuts …
Irma Interrupts Alabama Corn Harvest, Complicates Cotton Crop
Farmers are scouting for damage from Tropical Storm Irma, which dropped several inches of rain and blew winds up to 50 mph in east and central Alabama Monday. The storm, which raged across the Florida peninsula last weekend, interrupted corn harvest for some Alabama growers, said the Alabama Farmers Federation’s Carla Hornady. “The rain pushed some farmers to work long …

