There are more farmers in Georgia over the age of 65 than under. Higher costs for farm inputs including seed ... who pledge not to develop their land to receive property tax assessments based ...
MACON – Georgia Farm Bureau members will gather on Jekyll Island Dec. 8-10 for the organization’s 87th annual convention. The convention theme, “Where You Belong,” emphasizes the organization’s ...
AMERICUS — In a pecan grove that rises along Ga. 49 at the edge ... the sale of more than half its land to retire a debt. Pecans have long been vital to the farm’s mission and its survival ...
“I'd be out of business,” said Cox, who farms 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) acres around Pelham. For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia ... well on some land that he ...