Warming temperatures may move NC farmers to switch crops
Story Date: 9/30/2019

 

Source: Mandy Mitchell, WRAL, 9/18/19

 
Jay Sullivan walks through rows of harvested corn. His father, son and grandson close by. His is a family farm, and it always has been. "My dad, he farmed with his father. I farmed with him. My son farmed with me, and hopefully one of his sons will farm with him," Sullivan said. The Sullivan farm is 900 acres and sits in Sampson County. More than a third of acreage is dedicated to corn. And it's getting harder to grow corn in North Carolina as temperatures rise.

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