North Carolina farmers are planting more acres of cotton, tobacco, sweet potatoes and winter wheat this year, but fewer acres of corn, peanuts and soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June Acreage Report. Cotton growers intend to plant 760,000 acres, 38 percent more than last year and the most since 2006. Across the […]
Farmers planting more acres of cotton, sweet potatoes, tobacco this year
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