![]() ![]() North Carolina has waived transportation rules to help farmers move crops and livestock ahead of the most severe storm to threaten the U.S. North Carolina’s corn crop was 43 percent harvested as of Sunday, while the type of tobacco most commonly grown in the state was 67 percent harvested, according to USDA data. “They’re around the clock on corn,” said Andy Curliss, chief executive officer for the NC Pork Council, an industry group. Some 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate. ![]() “I’ll tell you, agriculture is in the heart of that bull’s eye.”įlorence, a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 miles per hour (210 kph), was expected to make landfall on Friday, bringing heavy, sustained rain and potentially deadly flooding to the U.S. “The governor said that North Carolina is the bull’s eye of this hurricane,” Larry Wooten, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, said in an interview. Its crops include corn, soy and cotton, making agriculture the state’s No. North Carolina is the country’s leading producer of tobacco, second-biggest producer of hogs and a major poultry producer. The 1999 storm flooded manure pits and contaminated waterways with animal carcasses and waste. ![]() Meanwhile, pig farmers across the state were lowering levels of liquid manure in outdoor storage pits in an effort to avoid a repeat of Hurricane Floyd. pork processor, planning to shut two of its North Carolina plants - including the world’s biggest hog slaughterhouse. The forecasts for devastating rain and winds also had WH Group’s Smithfield Foods, the largest U.S. FILE PHOTO: Lester "Buddy" Stroud, a farm hand at Shelley Farms, walks through a field of tobacco ready to be harvested in the Pleasant View community of Horry County, South Carolina, U.S., July 26, 2013. ![]()
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