Joel Hicks, 78, checks his phone before heading to work in the fields early in the morning on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in Leon, Oklahoma.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks cracks a green peanut off the vine on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks and farmhand Michael Dye, left, attach a peanut digger-inverter to a tractor on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks inspects his peanuts after inversion on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts flow out of a chute as they are transferred between trucks on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks laughs with his brother Dewey Hicks at Dewey’s shop Hicks and Sons Barrier on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Marietta, Okla.
Joel Hicks inverts peanuts as the sun sets on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks wipes dust off of a trophy he won for the quality of his peanut crop in 1993 on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts that have been turned upside down to dry in the sun are seen on the left, while peanuts still growing underground are on the right on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Muck boots underneath a bench inscribed with Joel and his wife’s names on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, outside his home in Leon, Okla. Sandy moved out two decades ago, but the two see each other multiple times a month despite the separation.
Payton Musick, Joel’s grand-nephew and farmhand, shovels thrashed peanuts into a truck at dusk on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks walks to lock up a shed before calling it a night on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks takes off his boots in his living room after a day of peanut thrashing on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks, 78, checks his phone before heading to work in the fields early in the morning on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in Leon, Oklahoma.
Joel Hicks, 78, checks his phone before heading to work in the fields early in the morning on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in Leon, Oklahoma.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks cracks a green peanut off the vine on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks cracks a green peanut off the vine on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks and farmhand Michael Dye, left, attach a peanut digger-inverter to a tractor on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks and farmhand Michael Dye, left, attach a peanut digger-inverter to a tractor on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks inspects his peanuts after inversion on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks inspects his peanuts after inversion on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts flow out of a chute as they are transferred between trucks on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts flow out of a chute as they are transferred between trucks on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks laughs with his brother Dewey Hicks at Dewey’s shop Hicks and Sons Barrier on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Marietta, Okla.
Joel Hicks laughs with his brother Dewey Hicks at Dewey’s shop Hicks and Sons Barrier on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Marietta, Okla.
Joel Hicks inverts peanuts as the sun sets on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks inverts peanuts as the sun sets on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks wipes dust off of a trophy he won for the quality of his peanut crop in 1993 on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks wipes dust off of a trophy he won for the quality of his peanut crop in 1993 on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts that have been turned upside down to dry in the sun are seen on the left, while peanuts still growing underground are on the right on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Peanuts that have been turned upside down to dry in the sun are seen on the left, while peanuts still growing underground are on the right on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Muck boots underneath a bench inscribed with Joel and his wife’s names on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, outside his home in Leon, Okla. Sandy moved out two decades ago, but the two see each other multiple times a month despite the separation.
Muck boots underneath a bench inscribed with Joel and his wife’s names on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, outside his home in Leon, Okla. Sandy moved out two decades ago, but the two see each other multiple times a month despite the separation.
Payton Musick, Joel’s grand-nephew and farmhand, shovels thrashed peanuts into a truck at dusk on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Payton Musick, Joel’s grand-nephew and farmhand, shovels thrashed peanuts into a truck at dusk on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks drives a combine pulling a peanut thrasher on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks walks to lock up a shed before calling it a night on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks walks to lock up a shed before calling it a night on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks takes off his boots in his living room after a day of peanut thrashing on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
Joel Hicks takes off his boots in his living room after a day of peanut thrashing on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Leon, Okla.
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