The cotton, peanut and watermelon cropdusting season is winding down fro Charles Timmons of AeroDusters in Wilcox County, Ga. Wilcox says his yellow and blue 1992 single-engine plane can spray up to about 100 acres per trip as he flies over fields stretching from middle Georgia to Florida. Timmons has been spraying crops for 44 years.
Wilcox County in Georgia’s heartland is one of the state’s smaller counties with 9,068 residents, according to the U.S. Census. About two thirds of residents are white and a third black. Estimates by the U.S. Census are that 27.4 percent of county residents live in poverty.
Photo taken May 15, 2013 by Michael Kaynard of Kaynard Photography. All rights reserved.