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On most weekday mornings, Kimberly Landers, a medical assistant with Coffee Regional Medical Center, sees patients in the clinic at the Premium Peanut shelling plant.

Johnny Kauffman / WABE

In the middle of rural South Georgia, the sun is just coming up on two tan-colored warehouses at the 3-and-half-acre Premium Peanut shelling plant.

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Among the conveyors and trucks carrying peanuts, there’s an enclosed, white trailer about the size you might see on a campground. On weekday mornings, around the time workers at Premium Peanut change shifts, Kimberly Landers enters the trailer, opens her laptop and gets ready to see patients.