Calhoun County bean company receives state grant for expansion [Video]

This funding will allow them to double their production by installing a new shelling line, allowing them to meet demand by producing about 170 bushels a day.

CALHOUN COUNTY, S.C. — Twelve entrepreneurs throughout South Carolina will receive part of a $185,000 agribusiness grant from the State Department of Agriculture. Five of those awardees are right here in the Midlands, including Richland, Clarendon, and Fairfield counties.

“Demand far outpaces my ability to keep up,” said owner Josh Johnson.

From pink-eyed peas, to black-eyed peas, white acre peas, and lima beans, the company grows them all. They are grown on the farm in Elloree, and then taken to the on-site shelling facility to get sorted and bagged.

The company produces about 70 to 100 bushels of beans and peas a day.

Johnson says with the company only having one shelling line, they’ve been struggling to keep up with the demand of …