Source:   Elton Robinson, DELTA FARM PRESS, 6/28/11

It’s an all too common sight. You’re driving through town when out of the blue there’s another one of those big wooden “For Sale” signs in front of a corn, cotton or soybean field tucked away between Lowe’s and a new movie theater. A landowner is finally about to cash in on urban sprawl. A couple of years later, it’s a checkerboard of asphalt, brick and bermuda.

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