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[Chuck Saunders]

I went to school in Winston Salem at NC School of the Arts. This was 
when the ad campaign of Tobacco means XXX dollars or XXX jobs to North 
Carolina. The numbers were huge but I never gave it much thought, untill 
I saw the same signs in Georgia during a trip and the numbers were waaay 
smaller. In Tennessee where I went to high school, we always gave our 
allotment to a friend.
Chuck Saunders
Kansas City, MO

Spencer Yost wrote:

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>On 2/15/2005 at 10:59 AM Grant Brians wrote:
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>>Walt mentions a good point. California agriculture is diverse, diverse, 
>>diverse. Close to 100% of the world almond crop (approaching 5 billion 
>>pounds in the last four years.) More milk than any other state (and more 
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>But not tobacco, sweet potatoes or turkeys!
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>Here is the link for NC statistics:
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>http://www.ncagr.com/stats/nc_rank/nc_rank.htm
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>Not too shabby for a eastern fairly urban state, but definitely nothing
>like CA.  (-;  Interstingly, we are 15th in the number of farms, which I
>think is very high when one considers how many states east of us are rural
>farming states and the fact NC has lost 50% of its farms in just the last
>30 years alone - mnainly tobacco farms.  I'l bet we were in the top ten
>just 30 years ago.
>
>Spencer Yost
>Owner, ATIS
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