Eastern North Carolina Farming


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Settled as a maritime and agricultural colony, North Carolinas history has always been intertwined with agriculture and farming. After the Civil War, North Carolina became the nations top grower of tobacco, and one of the countrys largest tobacco companiesthe American Tobacco Companyflourished from the huge quantities of Eastern North Carolinagrown tobacco that was purchased. With the growing success of cotton farming and other crops and livestockincluding corn, peanuts, and hogsthe region was particularly rich in subsistence farming. Over the course of the 20th century, farming and agriculture went through tremendous change. The familiar landscape of cotton and tobacco began to shift and include more varied crops, such as soybeans and sweet potatoes. At the same time, hand tools were exchanged for tractors and combines. Eastern North Carolina Farming showcases the rich history of this agriculturally dynamic region while telling the individual stories of farmers who grew for families, markets, and distribution.




North Carolina Agricultural Statistics, 2000, Vol. 196 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from North Carolina Agricultural Statistics, 2000, Vol. 196 Five major farmers' markets, located in Asheville, Greensboro, Char lotte, Raleigh and Lumberton, were opened to provide small farmers a local market for their fruits and vegetables. International markets have been developed for many North Carolina products making our state a leading exporter of agricultural commodities. Graham supported the development of Carolina Ports, a program to expand international markets. The Good ness Grows in North Carolina program, which promotes North Carolina products nationally and abroad, was initiated under his leadership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










Commission on Small Family Farm Preservation


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Excerpt from Commission on Small Family Farm Preservation: Report to the 1999 General Assembly of North Carolina, 2000 Regular Session Larry Wooten, Chair of the Rural Prosperity Task Force Focus Group on Agriculture, presented the recommendations of the task force for how to help the State's farmers.2 These included measures to develop new markets for the State's agricultural products; increase the production of higher value crops and the establishment of value-added processing facilities; stimulate alternative agricultural enterprises; and prioritize spending on agriculture through the establishment of an Agricultural Advancement Consortium made of agricultural experts and farm representatives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Throwed Away


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Flowers (English, North Carolina Wesleyan College) is not a sociologist, demographer, or historian. She is guided by personal memory and experience, reading and conversations, in this insightful study of the demise of tenant farming and the failures of industrialization in the rural South since 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Commission on Small Family Farm Preservation


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