Source: Garrett Bergquist, SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS, 6/14/21

 A Duplin County car dealer said without the county's animal processing plants, neither he nor many of the people he does business with would be here. On a typical day at Bill Carone's Ford and Chevrolet dealerships, most of his team can be found in the back, working on cars customers have brought in for maintenance. One technician is swapping out a faulty transmission. Another is replacing a dashboard. Carone said about 40 people work for him in all.

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