Tim McMillan of Southern Grace Farms, Enigma, Georgia and his brother, Steve, are 7th generation farmers in Berrien County. Tim was recognized by Farm Press with the 2013 Peanut Profitability Award for the Lower Southeast Region during the Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City Beach, Florida. His award was...
The Farmer's Daughter
Through the eyes of a farmer (Georgia Peanut Commission)
Jennifer McMillanAug 24, '17
Through the Eyes of a Farmer series visits with Tim McMillan, farmer from Enigma, Georgia. McMillan is a seventh-generation family farmer from Berrien County, Georgia. He farms with his brother, Steve, and their farm is a typical diversified row crop farm with peanuts, cotton, cows, timber and some specialty crops. ...
Warm Winter = Early Strawberries in South Georgia (post from February)
Jennifer McMillanAug 24, '17
(post from February 2017) Well as most of you in South Georgia already know, we’ve basically gone from Fall to Spring as Winter forgot to show up this year! That’s great for strawberries b/c as long as we frost protected the few nights we did have cold weather, we were...
What's going on with South Georgia Peaches this year??
Jennifer McMillanAug 24, '17
What's going on with peaches this year? Unfortunately, we have decided not to open our U-Pick Peach, Plum, and Nectarine Orchard this year. There are several weather related factors that determine our crop each year and this year was the worst to date for our trees. All of our summer...