Source: Andy Uhler, MARKETPLACE, 10/23/18


Triple B Farms covers about 800 acres in Johnston County, North Carolina, about 45 miles southeast of Raleigh. Brandon Batten is one of the B's. He’s 32 and runs the farm with his dad and uncle. They farm corn, wheat and soybeans, but their cash crop is tobacco. Talking from inside a barn down the road from the tobacco fields, he said right now, he’s stuck without a whole lot of farming to do.

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