New Mural
Enterprise, AL
E_Mural Cotton Peanut
Shot from each direction merged into one. Note the boll weevil in the middle and the cotton and peanuts on either end.
Back around 1918 farmers in this area were losing whole cotton crops to the bollweevil. Local agribusiness folks decided to try growing peanuts which became very profitable, hence the erecting of a monument to the bollweevil. Now with the loss of the US government peanut support program and internationalized business, peanuts are not very profitable any more. So, with better farming techniques, cotton has made it's way back to the local farms. Recently a mural was painted on a downtown building adjacent to the Bollweevil Monument. It recognizes both cotton and peanuts....though peanuts are fading fast. If interested, see the following wiki for the Bollweevil Monument.
New Mural
Enterprise, AL
E_Mural Cotton Peanut
Shot from each direction merged into one. Note the boll weevil in the middle and the cotton and peanuts on either end.
Back around 1918 farmers in this area were losing whole cotton crops to the bollweevil. Local agribusiness folks decided to try growing peanuts which became very profitable, hence the erecting of a monument to the bollweevil. Now with the loss of the US government peanut support program and internationalized business, peanuts are not very profitable any more. So, with better farming techniques, cotton has made it's way back to the local farms. Recently a mural was painted on a downtown building adjacent to the Bollweevil Monument. It recognizes both cotton and peanuts....though peanuts are fading fast. If interested, see the following wiki for the Bollweevil Monument.