Source: Cindy Choi, WITN, 9/15/21

For peanut farmers in North Carolina, knowing when to dig their peanuts is one of the most important decisions they’ll make in September, when peanuts change color, signifying their maturity, in about a week. In Pitt County, the average week of digging peanuts is the last week in September, but what the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service discovered is that there’s a great variation in terms of when that will occur, according to extension agent Mitch Smith.

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