Peanuts and farmers trying to avoid striking out with baseball coronavirus bans
Story Date: 8/13/2020

 

Source: Lucas Manfredi, FOX BUSINESS, 8/12/20


The coronavirus has created many unexpected challenges this year for the world of sports, and with Major League Baseball fans stuck at home this year, stadiums' highly sought-after, in-shell peanuts have become the latest casualty. According to the National Peanut Board, 5.4 million bags of in-shell peanuts are sold each season in MLB ballparks, but with no fans in the stadiums, bags of these top-shelf peanuts are sitting in storage, already packaged and shipped, just waiting to be cracked open.

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