Source: YADKIN RIPPLE, 2/23/17

The Yadkin Ripple: Ben Hobson, a Yadkin County young farmer, participated with 45 other tobacco farmers and industry representatives recently in the 2017 NC State Tobacco Short Course in Raleigh. Hobson has been farming five years with his father, Derrick, at Hobson Farms near Boonville. Last year they grew 150 acres of flue-cured tobacco and 700 other crop acres in their farming operation.

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