Source:  Candace Sweat, WRAL, 11/22/18

 Hurricane Florence caused an estimated $2.4 billion in damages to the state's agriculture business. Corn, tobacco and soybeans took the biggest hits. Kent Revels, in Fuquay-Varina, grows soybeans and tobacco. “If a farmer, if he’s really got it in his blood and it’s really what he wants to do, he does not give up easy,” Revels said.

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