Source: Martha Quillin, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/31/19


To North Carolinians who have never worked the land, farming is what happens in the fields that vacationers pass along rural roads leading to the mountains or the beach. Travelers glance at the lush summer growth — corn stretching skyward, tobacco leaves unfurled, soybeans bushing out — and see a landscape largely unchanged from one year to the next, except for the slowly shrinking amount of acreage under cultivation.

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