Source: Garrett Bergquist, SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS, 3/3/21

 The seeding is off to a slow start. A wet February put T.J. Sasser and his team of farmhands at Kornegay Family Farms a couple of weeks behind schedule. It took until the first week of March to seed the last of three greenhouses set aside for tobacco plants. “It hasn't really affected us as much as it would have if it had been a month, but no, we did not get a good, early start this year,” he says. Kim Kornegay LeQuire's family has grown tobacco, sweet potatoes, and a host of other products in Johnston County for half a century.

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