The first stop of the 26th annual Georgia Peanut Tour is the Israel family farm. The family farms in Sumter and Lee County, Ga., and grow around 650 acres of peanuts. The Israel family primarily grow seed peanuts for their self and the state of Georgia to help with increasing new peanut varieties. The family is also one of the few farms left that also dry their own peanuts. Today on the tour Hal Israel explained how a peanut digger operates and showed the attendees plowed up peanuts and various models of peanut combines. Due to the rain the day before the Israel family could not show any actual digging or picking of peanuts.
