Sumter farmer Bradford loses his signature watermelon crop for year

BY BRUCE MILLS
bruce@theitem.com
Posted 8/19/22

Farmers know "you can't win them all."

That is local heirloom seedsman Nat Bradford's perspective after a lost crop of his popular and tasty watermelons.

All the rain in the area during the first half of July essentially drowned his melons on …

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