Tobacco
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Joanna Carraway is the 2013 winner of the Tomorrow’s Top Producer Horizon Award.
Tobacco is one crop struggling to keep acres.
Think of it as photosynthesis on steroids. Photosynthesis is how plants convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into food. But it’s a very inefficient process, using less than one percent of the energy available, scientists said.
Travel to St. James Parish in Louisiana to learn about one of the state’s lesser-known commodities: perique tobacco.
Damage assessments to agriculture are starting to emerge from North Carolina and South Carolina. Ag losses could swell into the billions of dollars.
Floods unleashed across North Carolina by deadly Hurricane Florence are destroying crops after the storm wreaked havoc on cotton and tobacco.