HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Hurricane Isaac's rains came at the right time for peanuts in southeast Mississippi, which got more than a foot and a half of rain in some spots. The area's goober peas are ...

SEAGRAVES - Bobby Harlan isn't too worried - yet. Another couple weeks of continuously dry weather, and that could change. It's a sentiment the Seagraves peanut farmer and goober growers around the ...

BAKER CO., GA (WALB) - As harvest time approaches, are South Georgia farm fields getting too much rain? Farmers often pray for rain, but right now many of them want the rain to slow down because it ...

PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) - A lot of people in the Pine Belt are happy to see rain, but many farmers are hoping for some dry weather to speed up the planting of this year’s peanut crop. Drought conditions ...

LODGE, S.C. — This story was produced through a collaboration between News 4 in Charleston and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Johnny McMillan has noticed that summers on his ...

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi -- Hurricane Isaac's rains came at the right time for peanuts in southeast Mississippi, which got more than a foot and a half of rain in some spots. The area's goober peas are ...

HEADLAND - Growing season is in full swing for the Wiregrass area’s landmark crop – peanuts – even as unstable weather conditions, especially the recent heavy rains, continue to affect production.

Rain might help the middle crop mature some bolls, but Johnson said he isn’t sure that it would add a lot of yield. Late rain would help the younger cotton, peanuts and the pastures where he keeps ...

The peanut and cotton harvest could be key to the South Georgia economy during these tough times. Lots of rain last spring and last week have made this a late harvest for many peanut farmers. Most ...

Until more rain falls on Georgia’s parched dryland peanut crop, the University of Georgia peanut agronomist Scott Monfort says peanut farmers should stop applying other treatments to their crops. Even ...

BULLOCH CO., GA (WTOC) - Farmers couldn't be happier for the rain that came on Sunday and over the past week, especially those who have started harvesting peanuts. Tractors in South Georgia started to ...

Arkansas farmers planted more than 20,000 acres of peanuts for the third straight year, but this year were enduring a harvest that dragged into December. “Arkansas peanut farmers planted a little over ...