Source: SALISBURY POST, 3/16/18

As of July 2007, the world has been more urban than rural, according to a study by the Population Reference Bureau. “That was the month that more people lived in cities than they did in the countryside,” said Debbie Hamrick, director of specialty crops with the N.C. Farm Bureau. Hamrick, who spoke Thursday at the March Power in Partnership breakfast, said that shift is — for the most part — working in Rowan County’s favor.

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