Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 8/28/17


Thomas Sugg loved cotton and wanted to grow the crop on his farm near Snow Hill in North Carolina’s Greene County.
In the late 1980s, a handful of farmers in the area began trying their hands at growing cotton, a crop that had lost favor in the Coastal Plain due to the boll weevil and better returns for other crops. Thanks to the boll weevil eradication program, cotton, which had been a big crop in Greene County in the 1940s and 1950s, made a return starting in...

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