Source: Justina Vasquez, BLOOMBERG, 9/16/18


The heavy winds that accompanied Florence tore tobacco leaves from plants and blew cotton lint onto the ground in a major producing area of North Carolina, according to one eyewitness. As much as a fifth of those two crops still in fields may have been lost, said Norman Harrell, the local director of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension in Wilson County. His estimate was based on what he saw himself as well as reports from farmers.

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