Source: Brandon Truitt, WNCT, 3/30/17

 Farmers in Pitt County say that it’s the earliest strawberry season they’ve seen in 17 years of growing the red berries.
“We had a warm February and that really sped things up for us,” said Mike Skinner of Strawberries on 903. “There were a few cold nights in the past couple of weeks that had us concerned, but the berries fared well and everything is looking really good!”

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