(Ric Feld / AP) The recession may not be happy for everyone, but it is driving demand for peanuts. "It appears that peanuts weathered the storm reasonably well," farmer Tim Burch says.
Peanut Producers Thriving After Safety Scare
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Peanut farmers who once feared $1 billion in losses are chalking up their good fortune to a bad economy that has more people reaching for peanut butter as a cheap lunch. Agriculture Department numbers back up the theory.
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"This is very unusual. It shows you how important peanut butter is to the American diet," Sanford Miller said. "People just won't give it up."
