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Strawberries in season at Jaemor

Brandon Crumley places two more baskets filled with strawberries on a trailer in the strawberry fields Monday afternoon at Jaemor Farms. Recent heavy rainfall has made the field roads soggy so crews have to rely on tractors to move the produce out of the fields.

0507strawberries1 — Brandon Crumley places two more baskets filled with strawberries on a trailer in the strawberry fields Monday afternoon at Jaemor Farms. Recent heavy rainfall has made the field roads soggy so crews have to rely on tractors to move the produce out of the fields.

Strawberries are ripe for the picking, if you can make your way to them through the mud and saturated ground. “We’re in full swing,” said Drew Echols, manager of Jaemor Farms, 5340 Ga. 365, near Lula. “This rain is hampering things a little bit, but not too badly.