Peanut pickers and other farm equipment stand ready in the fields, waiting for the harvest that will come – when the rain stops. Areas in and around Bulloch County were soaked with up to six inches of rainfall this week, which means problems for farmers hoping to get peanuts, cotton and soybeans harvested, said Bulloch County extension agent Bill Tyson. “The rain is a setback, especially for peanuts,” he said Wednesday as he drove back to Statesboro from Tifton.
Rainfall a risk to cotton, peanuts
No sunshine predicted until next week


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