Tornadoes and tropical storms didn't just damage a local peanut shelling plant here in Blakely, but also caused major losses in the peanut harvest by dumping a lot of rain in the Florida Panhandle and Southern Georgia.
"Jeanne brought us more water than we needed," said John Baldwin, a University of Georgia peanut specialist in Tifton. "You cannot ... get into some fields without getting stuck. We have lost some yield," he said.
A sad situation. Hopefully, next year's weather will be perfect...
