Source: Garrett Bergquist, SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS, 2/24/21

 One cattle farmer said Wednesday his main concern for this year is potential increased production costs. Stephen Thomas owns a small cattle herd in addition to his main line of hay farming. Thomas says the last couple of years have been successful enough he has been able to invest in improvements on his farm, including a new corral. “If I don't do that, I can't expand my herds any,” he says. Like their counterparts nationwide, North Carolina farmers continued working in the face of the worst pandemic in a century.

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