Saturday, June 5, 2010

Where does Peanut Butter Come from???

This is Crazy Richard in the factory checking on the finished product before shipping to the grocery stores.
The peanuts are cleaned and graded and put into these enormous bags for shipping to the peanut butter factory. The bags are only used once and then recycled.
This darling little peanut plant is only a few weeks old. It will get yellow blossoms that will then shoot out a stick that will poke into the ground. From that stick will grow the peanuts underground.
This tractor is planting the rows of peanuts. They are planted in rows of 2, close together. The Tractor is GPS guided and knows exactly where to go and how to make the rows straight. This farmer owns about 12 or 13 tractors and they cost over $250,000. each He's a small farmer compared to some others in Georgia. The best peanuts in the world are grown in Georgia.
This is afreshly planted field. Once the plants sprout they will be watered by big sprinklers overhead.