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The Palmetto State growing nuts
Posted: 10.30.2012 at 7:19 AM
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South Carolina has planted a record peanut crop in 2012.  The state Department of Agriculture says that South Carolina farmers planted a record 105,000 acres of peanuts this year. That's more than 10 times the number of acres planted in the state just a decade ago.

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