On a combine, from South Union to Fair Play

If you’ve ever wondered about the size of Oconee County agriculture, take a ride some day on SC 182 from Oakway to Fair Play.  Any doubts will be erased.  Much of southern Oconee remain a strong agriculture base.  Andy Whitten is part of a working Oconee County farm family.  He has raised issues of safety involving the general motoring public and farmers who often must use the county roads to get from one field to another.  Many of those roads are narrow and have little or no shoulders.  That can make for some close calls between cars, trucks and the increasing larger size of 21st century farm equipment.  Whitten would like to go a step or two further by convincing the state to devote a page or a section in its driver’s manual to educate new and old drivers, alike, to the importance of sharing the road with the farming community.