Source: MOUNTAIN XPRESS, 11/24/16

In his more than 30 years of service to Western North Carolina’s agricultural community, Marvin Owings Jr. says he’s never seen conditions as dry as these. “The real old-timers have all been telling me the same thing,” he says. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my tenure. It’s never been this dry for this long.” Owings heads the N.C. Cooperative Extension branch in Henderson County...

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