Source:  SALISBURY POST, 8/27/2


Sam Shumate from Rep. Ted Budd’s office and several other staffers from Washington, D.C. on the Agricultural Committee visited Patterson Farms on Thursday, Aug. 25, to learn more about their relationship with N.C. State University and Cooperative Extension and the N.C. Department of Agriculture. Randall Patterson expressed to the group how input costs for growing tomatoes had dramatically increased this year over last year. Noting that any petroleum-based products had doubled if not tripled in price. Yet their tomatoes were selling for the same price they sold for two years ago. The cost of labor and lack of insurance were other areas of concern.

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