Source: Todd Wetherington, KINSTON FREE PRESS, 9/28/18


 
In Dale Dawson’s earliest memories the farm is always there, a blur of green leaves, brown earth, and blue firmament racing past as he sits between his grandfather’s knees, his small hands wrapped around the wheel of a tractor. As a fifth generation farmer who began navigating field equipment at age five, Dawson has experienced every indignity visited upon family run agriculture businesses, from droughts and floods to the fickle nature of commodity prices and, lately, tariffs on the very crops he depends on to earn a living.

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