Company donates peanut equipment

Published October 27, 2012 3:02pm ET



JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Georgia-based Kelley Manufacturing Co. has donated a two-row digger shaker to the Mississippi Peanut Growers Association.

The company also refurbished and added a bagger to a Kelley-made combine donated to the association by the National Peanut Research Lab.

The association has given the Kelley equipment to the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station for use with peanut variety trials on the farms of cooperating producers and Mississippi State University test plots.