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Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 4:34 AM EDT
|By Sarah Winkelmann
All of Chatham County is still experiencing severe drought conditions.
Updated: May. 30, 2022 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Ben Hilliard’s onions roll down the belt for grading. He’s a first generation farmer who started only a decade ago.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Carson Foskey has been farming almost his entire life. He started on a family member’s farm at age ten.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Farming roots run deep in Effingham and Screven counties for the Boyd family.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A third-generation farmer in Tattnall County says this year may go down in the books as the most challenging.
Updated: Apr. 25, 2022 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Vidalia Onions are currently being harvested and distributed across the county.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Spring marks the “sweetest” time of the year for plenty of cooks from professional chefs to the rest of us in our own kitchens.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 6:55 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
We all face challenges right now associated with fuel prices, supply chair issues and more. That includes local farmers.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 6:55 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
The strawberry festival made its return this past weekend after a few years.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 at 6:41 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A fourth generation farmer in Pierce County says his family’s adapted over the years to stay in business.
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Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 7:15 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
National Peanut Month is nearing an end, meaning it’s almost time for farmers to plant this year’s crop.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 6:41 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
March is National Peanut Month, a crop many families in the Coastal Empire rely on to make a living.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 7:26 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady
A young peanut and cotton farmer in Bulloch County is adapting modern practices on his family’s operation.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 5:18 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady
This potential freeze this weekend has blueberry growers on edge, with their crop in danger.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 6:12 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady
One community took time Tuesday to honor farmers and others that help sustain our country.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 6:02 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A fourth-generation farmer in Bulloch County tells us he prefers the challenges of farming to the stability of an outside job.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 5:07 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
The 2021 Sunbelt Ag-Expo in Moultrie, Georgia is happening this week.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 10:14 AM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
A local family is welcoming folks back to their farm for their famous fall festival.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 6:38 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
One Candler County farmer makes the most of small acreage to raise his crops and family.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 12:46 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Ben Boys looks back on this year's corn crop
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 12:38 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Some Georgia dairy farmers are trying to get the state to authorize sales of raw, unpasteurized milk.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 5:24 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
As storms target the Gulf Coast and west of us, most people in our area breathe a sigh of relief to see them miss us. But plenty of local farmers are happy to see the rain after a dry stretch.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2021 at 5:05 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Modern agriculture has farmers juggling weather, prices and real estate too.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2021 at 6:43 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A South Georgia farmer’s crops can go from drought to drowning over and over in the same season.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2021 at 1:11 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Starting this Saturday, this two-block back parking lot downtown will transform into Statesboro’s downtown Farmer’s Market.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2021 at 8:04 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
You can say farming is in the blood of one young man in Bulloch County. He grew up with his father, grandfather, and great grandfather working the family’s land.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2021 at 11:43 AM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer: Poppell Farms
Updated: May. 31, 2021 at 11:52 AM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner says the past year has been the “best of times and worst of times” for Peach State farmers.
Updated: May. 24, 2021 at 12:34 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
The Bird family has been farming in Candler County for over 100 years.
Updated: May. 17, 2021 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Sean Brannen spends plenty of time these days behind the wheel of a tractor. He and his family have more than 4,000 acres of cotton and peanuts to plant for the season.
Updated: May. 10, 2021 at 6:11 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A Tattnall County farmer splits his time and energy between raising his own crops and helping deliver someone else’s nationwide.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 10:48 AM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to a Be a Farmer: Randall Morris
Updated: Apr. 26, 2021 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
An onion farmer in Toombs County helps deliver the world famous crop to stores and buyers each season.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 12:22 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer: Pete Waller
Updated: Apr. 12, 2021 at 2:14 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Watch Daniel Johnson and his crew on the first day of tobacco planting and you will know why he calls it the craziest day of the year.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 12:35 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer: The Boyd family
Updated: Mar. 29, 2021 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A father and son team who farm Bulloch, Candler, and Evans counties say they face as much work outside the tractor as they do behind the wheel.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
Enjoy a special presentation of Proud to be a Farmer:
Updated: Mar. 22, 2021 at 12:12 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer: Jonathan Mann
Updated: Mar. 15, 2021 at 6:43 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
A pair of brothers carry on a farming legacy in Bulloch and Jenkins counties. They continue traditions as they also add new ones.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST
|By Andrew Gorton
Joe and Knapp Boddiford keep their family's faming tradition alive.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 5:59 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady
Farming is the only profession and the only life Josh Brannen has known. He’s among the fifth generation to tend this soil in Bulloch County and remembers farming as far back as he can remember.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady
Farmers may be one of the few groups where COVID-19 takes a back seat to other concerns.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2020 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By WTOC Staff
Farmers from across the Southeast had a keen eye on a big announcement Tuesday afternoon in Bulloch County. National environmental leaders gave them the green light to use one chemical that courts had tried to ban earlier this year.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2020 at 5:22 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Farmers who are harvesting this year’s peanut crop may have serious damage from a virus that has nothing to do with COVID-19.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2020 at 12:00 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
It takes approximately 150 days in between planting and harvesting peanuts, something the Boyd family has been doing in Effingham and Screven counties for more than a century.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2020 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
Farmers have faced an economic risk others might not appreciate when it comes to the pandemic. But they continue the work it takes to feed and clothe much of the world.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 12:15 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer: Aries Haygood
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Dal Cannady
We always hear that farming is a family business. But one third-generation farmer in Bryan County had to look elsewhere for some of his training.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 11:24 AM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton
Proud to be a Farmer Ben Boyd