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Hey everybody, Pilgrim Farmer here.
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Well, I haven't been doing
any farming at all
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this year.
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I've actually been doing
a lot of building this year.
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You can call me Pilgrim Builder this year.
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No farming whatsoever
that I'm doing myself, however
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not to say that farming
ain't being done on the property.
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We are here in a peanut field.
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And some of you were probably offended
at the title of this
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saying, "Well of course
peanuts don't grow on trees".
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Well, that's actually a question
we get quite a bit.
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You'll show someone a field like this,
and they'll say–
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who's from other parts of the country–
and they'll say, "Hey, what's that?"
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I say, "Well, that's a peanut field,"
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And they'll say,
"Peanuts? I thought they grew on trees".
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"No, no, no,
they grow in the ground".
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And here's a–
we have this huge washout right here
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which gives us a unique opportunity.
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You see exactly how they do grow.
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I just dug these out here.
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I'mma get the shovel
in there a little more.
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Just happened to find a shovel out here.
In't that convenient?
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Alrighty.
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We'll there we go.
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You see how
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they're not that far down.
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Now these are still very young,
and they're not ready to be picked yet.
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And the greens on top are usually
a lot taller than this,
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however
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every night the deer come through here
and munch them–
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chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp,
chomp, chomp, chomp–
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munch them right back down.
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They just go up and down
the rows feasting.
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As you can see, the tap root comes down
about that far on these,
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but the peanuts are
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fairly close to the top.
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That's a pretty good return
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considering they just planted
about one of those,
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and look how many you get in return.
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Here's another, another open row here.
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Courtesy of the washout.
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Those look fairly healthy,
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look fairly healthy.
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Now speaking of the deer,
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see the corn spilt on the ground here.
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Yes, baiting of deer is legal in Georgia.
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Someone has put corn down there,
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but as you can see the
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big deer tracks
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walking right through the corn,
and they're completely ignoring it,
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not paying it any mind.
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Why should they bother
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with the corn spilled on the ground
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when there's acres
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of fresh food for 'em to eat?
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Now we've got a harvester working
on another field
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where the peanuts are ready
to be harvested.
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Let's take a look at it.
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'Kay, that machine we just saw's
called an inverter,
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and it's job is to invert the peanuts
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like we see here.
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Pull 'em out of the ground,
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flip 'em over upside down,
and set them back down
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And then the sun,
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which we see up there shining bright
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tonight in Georgia,
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the sun and the wind
will dry the nuts out.
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Then another machine will come by later,
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separate the peanut itself from the plant.
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Then the peanuts go into a big wagon,
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and the greens themself
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they'll stay,
they'll fall back on the ground.
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Another machine will come by,
bale these up into huge round bales,
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and you can use them for animal feed,
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primarily is what they use them for.
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But he's got one row done
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in this field here.
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And he's got,
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oh, he's got
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a lot of work to do.
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One of the best things
about the peanut plant
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is that it will grow just about anywhere.
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Look at this ground here.
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I mean this dirt is
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better suited for growing pottery
than peanuts,
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but yet it still grows.
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Various parts of Africa and China
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people are hungry and starving.
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The peanut is a fantastic
source of protein for 'em.
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That's all I got to say about the peanut.
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But anyways,
thanks for watching, everybody.
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Hope you learned something.
Maybe you did, maybe you didn't.
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Hey, it was worth it to
listen to me babble
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for a little bit anyways.
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I'm up here giving you the panoramic view
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from my luxury deer stand.
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And I haven't been in this deer stand in
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a couple of–
well, actually been a whole lotta year.
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A little nervous about what's in here.
Oh, baby like
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black widow spider perhaps!
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But, typically there's scorpions in here.
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Oh well, either way
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thanks for watching, everybody. Bye-bye.