Source: Jodi Helmer, CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS, 10/12/20


Dan Ward plans to start harvesting his peanut crop in a few weeks. In February, Ward signed a contract with Birdsong Peanuts to grow shell peanuts for concession stands at Major League Baseball stadiums. The ink dried just weeks before the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread closures across the United States. For Ward, a seventh-generation farmer growing peanuts, corn and soybeans in the Bladen County town of Clarkton, COVID-19 hasn’t changed much on the farm.

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