Legislation Looks to Make Southern Missouri Town the Peach Capital of the State

(MISSOURINET) – In 1944, the local American Legion, farmers, and business owners held the first-ever Peach Festival in Campbell, located in the Bootheel’s Dunklin County. The event later turned into the Missouri Peach Fair, a seven-day celebration of a good year’s harvest. Sen. Jason Bean is sponsoring a bill that aims to make the southeast Missouri town the Peach Capital of Missouri. The reason for the designation is that nearly 85 percent of Missouri’s peach harvest is grown in Campbell.

Local peach growers have over 125-thousand peach trees on125 thousand-thousand acres.