EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Fall in Georgia means one thing: peanut season is officially cracking.

In Effingham and Screven counties, the Boyd family has been farming for generations . Ben Boyd has just wrapped up the corn harvest, and will spend the next six weeks harvesting the peanuts we enjoy in candy bars and treats.

Georgia leads the nation in peanut production, growing more than 45% of America’s peanut crop every year, according to the UGA Extension .

Peanuts grow in the ground, before farmers dig and invert them - allowing sunshine to air dry the crop for up to a week. Then farmers come back with harvesters to pick them off the vine before being shipped to a warehouse.

“We try to grow good ones,” Boyd said. “Hopefully they end up in your favorite treat - like my little g

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