Farm Features

Sesame Street

Season 49, Episode 12: Elmo’s Happy Little Train

We were so thrilled to be part of the iconic children’s production, Sesame Street! Cookie Monster and Gonger boarded the “Foodie Truck” to visit our peanut farm and a local peanut butter factory to learn where peanut butter comes from. Several of our friends in the peanut industry teamed up to help us with the shoot.

Wall Street Journal

The Water Wars that Defined the American West are Heading East

“At her farm near Camilla, Ms. Cox, 28, called irrigation the single most effective risk-management tool a farmer can have and said irrigation technology has grown more efficient over time. “If you took it away from us, we would not be able to farm,” she said, as she checked one of her family’s nine center-pivot sprinklers, stretched like a winged bird over a field of sweet corn…. “Irrigation is the linchpin of our economy,” said Glenn Cox…”

FarmHer - RFD-TV

Season 3, Episode 4: A FarmHer Conserving and Preserving

“I meet women all of the time who are connected to the land, but not many as passionate about that connection as Casey.  The river and forest are where she was born, raised and where she came back home to. While she never expected to live in a house right there in those woods as an adult, and become a FarmHer, she is doing just that.  She is a young woman with passion and spirit and is spreading that to those around her, advocating for agriculture and water right there at home, on the Flint River.”

Netflix: Rotten

Season 1, Episode 2: The Peanut Problem

We were grateful to be included in the Netflix docuseries Rotten, which explores various aspects of the food industry. In our episode, we discuss food allergies - specifically, peanut allergies - from a farmer’s perspective. US peanut farmers, through the National Peanut Board, have contributed approximately $32 million toward peanut allergy research, education, and outreach. To learn more about this issue, please visit preventpeanutallergies.com.

National Peanut Board

The Art and Science of Harvesting Peanuts

 “Glenn Cox, a Georgia peanut farmer from Camilla who has produced peanuts for 45 growing seasons, agrees. ‘Timing is everything,’ he said. ‘Finding the right sense of timing is critical throughout the growing cycle, from planting to harvesting…Peanut harvesting is more of an art because you depend on the people who have been doing it for years to help determine when the wind is right, or the weather is right for harvest. It’s a science when you need the data from a county extension agent to calculate the number of days from planting, the health of the vine or insect damage.’ “

Georgia Neighbors

Women in Agriculture

“Agriculture is the core of my past, present, and future - the connecting thread between my heritage and my livelihood.”

Georgia Grit

“Casey’s father taught her the importance of proactive conservation stewardship, something she’s taken to heart. This is a core value of many multi-generational farms like theirs. “He told me over and over since I was a little girl … ‘take care of the land, and the land will take care of you,’” she says, proudly pointing out she is a sixth-generation farmer and their family has owned part of the farm along the Flint River since 1842. She’s practicing that mindset by partnering with USDA and other groups to accomplish the farm’s conservation and business goals.”

Fox News

Florida, Georgia water war reaches nation's highest court

“Agriculture is the heart of our region (Southwest Georgia), and water is the lifeblood of agriculture,” Casey Cox, a sixth generation farmer, told Fox News. “Farmers have been very invested in following…the water wars over the last several decades because it will immensely impact what we do, and that uncertainty is something we have to take into account.”

Growing America

Six Generations Strong

Do farmers care about the land? Is the family farm a myth? Casey Cox is a sixth generation farmer that couldn't resist the call home to the farm after college. Join us again for another Growing America Story.

Longleaf Leader

Landowner Spotlight: Longleaf Ridge

“I would not have the opportunities I have today if it were not for the stewardship ethic of the five generations before me. Managing forests, especially longleaf pine forests, requires a vision for the future. Longleaf pines, like the Flint River, connect us with our heritage and the land that has sustained our family for generations. As the world continues to evolve and change, we manage our longleaf for future generations to have a window into the timeless beauty and resilience of a life-giving landscape.”

National Peanut Board

Sustainable at Heart

Casey Cox doesn’t just think of sustainability when it’s convenient; she’s made conservation her personal and professional passion. At 28, she is the sixth generation of her family to farm along the Flint River. Casey utilized her degree in Natural Resource Conservation from the University of Florida as a foundation to lead her back to southwest Georgia – with a renewed passion and purpose to be involved in agriculture and conservation. As a millennial farmer – with an interest and training in sustainability – we asked her about her family, her passion for sustainability and what it’s like to be a millennial farmer.

Southeast Farm Press

Passing the farm and land heritage to his daughter

Glenn and Casey Cox introduce the Flint River like it’s a member of their family. And, in many ways, it is. The river has been the heritage for the many generations of Coxes who’ve farmed and lived along its southwest Georgia banks.