<body><div>SILVERHILL, Ala. (WALA) - The peanut harvest is underway at Fidler Farms in Silverhill, with crews harvesting, sorting, boiling and roasting this week.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3InKwg_1EprUOmq00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3InKwg_1EprUOmq00" width="1300" height="730" ><figcaption>The jumbo green peanuts are the most popular for boiling. (Hal Scheurich)</figcaption></figure>Small field, specific peanutThe 10-acre field is planted with a Virginia-type peanut bred for boiling and roasting, according to Jimmie Fidler, owner of Fidler Farms.“They’re specifically a Virginia-type peanut that’s bred to boil and roast and the peanuts that’s in this county...other peanuts, there’s about twenty thousand acres throughout the county and some people plant three to five thousand acres and believe it or not, they come here to buy their peanuts that they want to eat,” Fidler said.Buddy Walker, a farm hand, said, “I know the boss is real happy about it.”From field to sorting tablePeanuts are brought from the field to the farm to be prepped for sale..Once the peanuts make it from the fields to the farm, the real work begins. The peanuts are sorted through a combination of high-tech machinery and people.A conveyor belt drops the peanuts into a bin that turns and blows air, separating peanuts that are split or too light. Workers at a sorting table then send visually appealing peanuts down the line to be bagged. The jumbo green peanuts are the most popular for boiling.Weather improved this yearFidler said crops have been off in recent years because of weather, but that hasn’t been a problem this year.“Last year we had all kinds of problems. We had dry weather. We had a bad stand. We had bad seed. We had a lot of things against us. This year we had a little dry weather up front, but we’ve overcome that I think and now we’re getting good rains. We’re really getting good rains,” Fidler said. “Well, that means they’re get a better product.”Buyers travel from out of stateBuyers from Mobile, Pensacola and Jackson visited the Silverhill farm Thursday to sample this year’s crop.Annette Claxton, who drove from Mobile, said, “I see some good roasted peanuts. She’s fixing to get me some boiled peanuts. I’m ready to get to the house and eat some of them.”Ricky Raines, who drove from Jackson, said he has been to Fidler Farms many times. “He’s got some good peanuts,” Raines said. “They just real good.”Bob Hass drove from Pensacola. “Growing up we’d eat them. I use my dad’s recipe and it’s just nice to be back in the southeast with SEC football, boiled peanuts and iced light beer,” Hass said.Fidler Farms is located on Bohemian Road, south of Silverhill. The farm will welcome customers seven days a week while peanuts are in season.</div></body>

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SILVERHILL, Ala. (WALA) - The peanut harvest is underway at Fidler Farms in Silverhill, with crews harvesting, sorting, boiling and roasting this week. The 10-acre field is planted with a Virginia-type peanut bred for boiling and roasting, according to Jimmie Fidler, owner of Fidler Farms. “They’re specifically a Virginia-type peanut...

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SILVERHILL, Ala. (WALA) - The peanut harvest is underway at Fidler Farms in Silverhill, with crews harvesting, sorting, boiling and roasting this week. The

Peanut harvest underway at Silverhill farm

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