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 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
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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
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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