Surry Business

Several reports about tobacco production and prices appeared this week. Despite, or because of, the federal tobacco buyout, tobacco production remains big business in Surry County, but prices are falling while production rises. Richard Davis, writing today in Carolina-Virginia Farmer, says the 47th annual Summary of Agricultural Prices by the National Agricultural Statistics Service shows […]

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The Winston-Salem Journal today reports the total 2006 wholesale value of all floriculture crops for North Carolina producers with $10,000 or more in annual sales is estimated at $202.5 million, up about 9.5 percent from 2005. North Carolina sales rank 6th in the country behind California, Florida, Michigan, Texas and New York. A total of […]

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Is she really 45? You didn’t hear that here.

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