Don's Peanut Place: Sunbelt Expo

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sunbelt Expo

This week is the Sunbelt Expo in Moultrie.

We will complete setup tomorrow and be there the three days cooking peanuts and talking to farmers and other visitors. Actually we see far more non-peanut farm visitors than we see peanut farm visitors and do it more as a consumer show.

We will cook about a thousand pounds of peanuts in three days and the product manufacturers will give out coupons and product.

It will be a busy week.

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Peanutty Stuff

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