Featured Video: President Carter Selling Boiled Peanuts

by | Jan 17, 2025 | Ag History, Feature Video, Field Crops, General Agriculture, Peanut

Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, and was raised just outside of Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm.  Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024.  Carter served as the 39th President from 1977-1981.  To pay tribute to Jimmy Carter’s life, the Georgia Peanut Commission recently published a segment of video recorded in 2008.  As a young boy in 1929 and 1930, Carter harvested, washed, boiled and sold 20 bags of boiled peanuts each day in town before lunch to earn a dollar a day.  Watch the video to hear Carter compare this young entrepreneur’s income to the hard-working people of the time.

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