Showing posts with label peanut farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peanut farming. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Peanut Farming


Glen Martin, left, and John Dyke, connect an eight-row lister to a tractor before preparing a 30-acre peanut field on Martin & Sons Farm Monday, April 6, 2009, near Brownfield, Texas. Peanuts make up about 10% of the farm's 4,500 acres. The battered peanut industry is involved in a lobbying and public relations campaign in Washington, a delicate strategy to help the industry rebound after the salmonella outbreak linked to the Peanut Corp. of America. -- AP photo/Geoffrey McAllister

I recently did an assignment for the associated press highlighting a peanut farm in Brownfield, Texas. Read NPR's article, THE INFLUENCE GAME: Peanut industry wants help too to see more photos and read the accompanying article.