Hitchcock, 44, grows pivot-irrigated corn, peanuts and soybeans on roughly 3,000 acres in east-central Georgia’s Washington County. In 2023, Hitchcock took the wide-row plunge.

Walmart reported a 1.6 percent increase and a 2.8 percent increase year-over-year in customer transactions and average ticket sales, respectively. The company produced $161.51 billion in revenue ...