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  Americans are eating more peanuts overall; more peanut butter and more snack peanuts.Total peanut consumption has been on the upward trend since 1996. Snack peanuts are up by 13.3 percent over the past year.
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  George Carpenter begins a demonstration of cleaning catfish by cutting off the spiny central fin.
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  The skin is separated by pulling downward with grippers.
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  The silo in the background holds 15 tons of catfish food. Catfish food is fed in pellet form. It is a high protein diet composed of fish meal, soybeans, corn, and wheat. In the summer, the catfish at the Carpenter pond consume a ton of food each day.
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  Oak trees line the cotton field adjacent to the Escambia Grain Coop silos.
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  There are three main buildings in the complex. The office is on the left, the grain elevator is immediately behind the office building and the fertilizer house is on the right of the photograph.
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  The conveyor belt runs the length of the bins.
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  White corn dust covers surfaces in the elevator.
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  A spectacular view of Walnut Hill can be seen from the top of the silos. Hundreds of acres of farmland stretch to the northern horizon.
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  Fertilizer is stored, mixed and sold in a seperate building. The bags shown above are loaded by hand after customing the mixture of the elements, such as, amonium nitrate, potash, etc.
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  After unloading, the truck is weighed empty to establish the amount of the load. The amount of the sale depends on current market price. A ticket is added to the farmer's account.
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  There are catfish ponds on both sides of the dirt road.
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  The pond is the foreground is one of many catfish ponds in the area. There are over 1,000 such ponds in the neighborhood.
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  There are cotton fields stretching for several miles on both sides of Kansas Road.
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  The Van Pelt Dairy Farm is located on Highway 97 in the Walnut Hill community.
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  Hundreds of acres of feed corn are grown along Highway 97.
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  In between corn fields there are pastures were the dairy cows graze.
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  Corn fields front Highway 97 for several miles.
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  The south end of the Van Pelt Dairy Farm is bordered by Gobbler Road. There are approximately three miles of corn fields along Gobbler Road which end to the east on Sandy Hollow Road.
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  The cows are leaving the milking barn. They are milked in shifts of 16 cows. The entire herd is processed between 1:40 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and again in the afternoon beginning at 1:00 p.m. finishing around 5:30 p.m..