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Post by nctobfarmer on Oct 19, 2012 16:18:50 GMT -5
Here's how peanut butter is born! First, you turn the plants over and let them dry: You let them sit a week or so to dry out, then come back with a combine like the one pictured on the right. The dump cart is on the left. I know the picture quality is not the best, it was foggy this morning and I shot this from my iPhone on the road.
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Post by black93z on Oct 19, 2012 17:36:29 GMT -5
I don't know about in your area but over here in between digging and combining we use a shaker/fluffer to fluff em up and shake off some more dirt
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Post by nctobfarmer on Oct 19, 2012 17:57:42 GMT -5
That happens some, but not everyone does it. A lot of people are now baling the vine residue the combine leaves for animal feed.
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Post by black93z on Oct 19, 2012 22:21:14 GMT -5
Ah ok, my grandpa tried that around here for a few years but never really got good production out of it so he quit n just start tilling it under. Y'all do very much sacking over there? Or just let em dry then take them to the co-op?
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Post by nctobfarmer on Oct 20, 2012 9:13:23 GMT -5
93, I'm not really sure about sacking. Neither of our family farms grow peanuts, so I'm not really sure of all the processes they go through once they leave the field. I think they go directly to market or the processing plants b/c I see the 18 wheelers going down the road full of them. I understand that most of them are grown under contract. We grow both styles of peanuts. The runner kind that are used in processed products like peanut butter and other things. The Virginia style that are roasted and then sold in the shell. Some people call these ball park peanuts.
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Post by black93z on Oct 20, 2012 23:19:18 GMT -5
oh ok, yeah we didn't grow ours under contract. Some times we'd sack em in the field, other times we'd stick em in drying trailers then send em to the co-op after they'd dried out some more. Alot of ours went to peanut butter as well.
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