Drought-free region comes at cost of prized tobacco crop
Story Date: 6/12/2012

 
Source: Wesley Brown, KINSTON.COM, 6/12/12
 

SNOW HILL — An “abnormally wet” and “unseasonably cool” spring this week placed many Greene County farmers in a quandary.

Should they celebrate the season’s porous start for making the area drought-free for the first time in nearly two years or bemoan it for setting its ever-important tobacco crop back two-weeks?

 
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