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The Last Peanut Farmer
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Credit: Austin Anthony via Visura
Asset ID: VA92381
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Copyright: © Austin Anthony, 2023
Collection: Environment Feature News
Topics: Environment Feature News

Austin Anthony

Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky/ Nashville, Tennessee

I'm a freelance photographer based in Kentucky, I've done assignments for the New York Times and The Washington Post. I'm an Eddie Adams alumni and my work has been awarded in POYi.
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Also by Austin Anthony —
Joel Hicks, 78, checks his phone before heading to work in the fields early in the morning on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in Leon, Oklahoma.
Joel Hicks doesn’t think he’s the last peanut farmer in Love County, Okla., but he’s definitely the only one in 2022. The 78-year-old’s 75 acres of Florunners make up the entirety of a crop that once took up over 5,000 acres in the county that sits atop the Red River bordering Texas. 

Hicks says the number of peanut farmers has been dwindling since the 2002 Farm Bill removed price supports for peanuts. Anthony Reed, Hicks’ compatriot on the Oklahoma Peanut Commission, gave his own reasons:

“There are plenty of reasons, starting with the drought,” he told the Marietta Monitor. “And then the high prices for fuel, fertilizer, and chemicals.”

The drought has been significant. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor this year’s September was the 6th driest in the last 128 years in Love County. The county exists in a zone of Severe Drought, with portions of the county in Extreme Drought. Hicks has watered his peanut crop 13 times this year at 1 and a half inches of water each time. He says he can’t remember a year where he did it more than 8. 

“He sure picked a good year to take a break,” said Hicks of Reed’s decision not to plant this year. 

Hicks also farms pecans and cattle, but says peanuts bring him the most joy. In the corner of his home office is a dusty collection of accolades for peanut farming. One stands over 3 feet tall with a 6 inch gold painted peanut adorning the top, awarded for his 1993 harvest. 

The awards stop coming some time in the 2000s, but Hicks keeps farming peanuts. The challenge of growing them and the reward of success keeps him going. 

“Peanuts are a really sensitive crop,” Hicks says. “They’re easy to be destroyed.”

Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks and farmhand Michael Dye, left, attach a peanut digger-inverter to a tractor on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Aerial photographs of Hicks
Joel Hicks cracks a green peanut off the vine on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks inspects his peanuts after inversion on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks poses for a photo in a peanut field on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks laughs with his brother Dewey Hicks at Dewey
Joel Hicks wipes dust off of a trophy he won for his peanut crop in 1993 on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Peanuts that have been turned upside down to dry in the sun are seen on the left, while peanuts still growing underground are on the right on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Peanuts flow out of a chute as they are transferred between trucks on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks inverts peanuts as the sun sets on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Payton Musick, Joel
Joel Hicks walks to lock up a shed before calling it a night on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA
Joel Hicks takes off his boots in his living room after a day of peanut thrashing on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla. Leon USA