Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 11/18/19


As farmers prepare for the 2020 crop, tariffs and trade with China will be top of mind no matter the crops they grow. In an interview Oct. 30 with Southeast Farm Press, Blake Brown, North Carolina  State University Extension economist, said that in 2019, trade skirmishes impacted virtually all the state’s top commodities, from corn to cotton to hogs. Of all the commodities, tobacco is the hardest hit.

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