Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 4/26/18


Mother Nature hasn’t cooperated with tobacco farmers this spring. “Ever since we got past the first of March, it has either been windy, cold or wet and what we have been battling lately has been cold and wet conditions,” said Norman Harrell, director of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension office in Wilson County. “We are just getting started,” said David Blalock, owner of Blalock Farms, as farmworkers pressed to get transplants in the ground Monday ahead of forecast rains.

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