TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) – The 48th Annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show kicked off today with amazing door prizes to help make farmers’ life a little easier. Farmers say they are excited to have these incentives to help encourage the next generation of farmers.
Farming today is hard and expensive work but it’s also rewarding. According to Farm show chairman, Rodney Dawson, getting people excited about agriculture is just as hard.
“I hear so much about the struggles, especially with the commodity prices like they are. there’s not many of us left. The average age of a farmer today is high 50s.” says Rodney Dawson, Farm show chairman…