Source: GARY D. ROBERTSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 11/17/13 RALEIGH, N.C. — Jo Ann Freeman says her father told her before he died to hold on to the family's Bertie County farmland because she could always live off of it, and besides, "God's not making any more."So tobacco was still growing there in 2004 when Congress ended the allotment system that gave people the right to farm and sell the golden leaf under a Depression-era price support program.
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