Farming is the economic engine of southwest Georgia, an area dominated by fields of cotton and peanuts and orchards of pecan trees. Agriculture is also the biggest industry in the state. And what keeps all those farms going is water.
Most years, there’s plenty of it. But droughts happen, and they can happen fast.
“We’re seven to 10 days from a drought most any summer,” says Andy Payne, who grows cotton, corn, peanuts, citrus and row crops in Webster County.
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