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Farm Tour Highlights North Escambia Agriculture (With Photo Gallery)
October 13, 2015
Participants in the Escambia County Farm Tour recently learned about agriculture in the North Escambia area.
Local governmental officials, community leaders and even international visitors toured several agricultural locations in North Escambia and get an up close and personal look at a variety of farming activities.
Following registration at the Molino Community Center, farm tour participants heard presentations from 4-H members before heading to Lulu Road in Molino to learn about forestry. Attendees then observed peanut production with Eric Koehn on Crabtree Church Road, visited the Birdsong Peanut Buying Point outside Atmore, and watched a cotton harvest with Mike Koehn on Kansas Road in Walnut Hill.
The farm tour then stopped to observe the growth of a sun hemp, a cover crop growing at Highway 97 and Kansas Road in Walnut Hill, and then visited the West Florida Gin Company on Meadows Road near Davisville.
Pictured top: Cotton production, and pictured inset: Peanut production. Submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com. Pictured below: Inside the West Florid Gin with cotton ginning equipment. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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