Eastern North Carolina Farming
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Frank Stephenson
Frank A. Stephenson is a professional forensic engineer. Born in Helena, MT., he finally realized that everyone does not own two sets of tires, three sets of clothes, antifreeze, ice scrapers, a snow shovel, so he moved to Phoenix. He is married to Brenda and has four grown children: Patty, Scott, Ashley, and Jennifer.
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Eastern North Carolina Farming - Frank Stephenson
Carolina.
INTRODUCTION
As one of the original 13 colonies, North Carolina grew from a simple agrarian-and maritime-based economy into one of the great farming states in the United States, featuring over 288,000 family farms at its peak in 1950. A high percentage of these farms were located in eastern North Carolina, where good soil, excellent growing conditions, and thousands of hardworking and God-fearing farm families were in great supply. North Carolina’s rise as one of the top farming states can be directly traced to the huge quantities of farm products that were grown in eastern North Carolina by thousands of farm families residing on small family farms. Farming in eastern North Carolina developed into a way of life and culture of its own that was tough, hard, and never-ending, as there was always work to do on the farm. The number-one issue on family farms in eastern North Carolina was survival, as farmers were at the mercy of drought, flooding rains, hail, hurricanes, and poor market conditions. Life on the farm in eastern North Carolina involved a lot of hard work for every member of the family. Each family member had specific jobs to do, such as feeding the chickens, milking the cows, slopping the hogs, or chopping the firewood, in addition to the long hours spent in the fields. Each farm had to be self-supporting or it could not survive. Eastern North Carolina farm families were hardy souls and survivors, and they developed ways and means to survive almost any adverse condition.
The eastern North Carolina farm families whose strong work ethics produced huge quantities of labor-intensive row crops for their region found their lives revolving around their farms, their homes, their schools, and their churches. Their lives were influenced by such North Carolina icons as Rev. Billy Graham, Andy Griffith, Richard Petty, Dean Smith, and Michael Jordan. It was the fruits of their farm labors, in part, that produced two world-class universities, Duke University and Wake Forest University, which were funded by the Duke and Reynolds tobacco families, respectively.
While many different crops have been grown and continue to be grown in eastern North Carolina, row crops such as tobacco, peanuts, cotton, corn, and soybeans were prevalent in the past, with tobacco leading the way. Tobacco has been grown in North Carolina for almost three centuries, since its early association with Sir Walter Raleigh. In the early years of the colony and, later, the state, growing tobacco had been moderately successful. But that all changed in the late 19th century when Washington Duke’s son James Duke incorporated James Bonsack’s cigarette-making machine into their cigarette-manufacturing operation. This new technology in cigarette manufacturing, which could make 120,000 cigarettes a day, was a major factor in North Carolina becoming the world’s largest tobacco grower. This was fueled by such North Carolina tobacco giants as the American Tobacco Company and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which were founded by the Duke and Reynolds families, respectively. The high demand for tobacco that was fueled by these tobacco manufacturing giants saw dramatic growth in North Carolina’s four tobacco belts: the old belt, the middle belt, the border belt, and the largest, the eastern belt, which alone featured nearly 70 tobacco marketing warehouses.
North Carolina has a long history of being one of the leading producers of peanuts in the United States. Eastern North Carolina, in particular, has been and remains one of the leading producers of the large Virginia-type (cocktail) peanuts, which are very popular roasted or salted. The growth of the peanut-growing industry in eastern North Carolina was enhanced in part by the closeness to the world’s largest peanut market in nearby Suffolk, Virginia. Eastern North Carolina peanuts, in turn, fueled the giant Suffolk peanut market, particularly after Amedeo Obici and Mario Peruzzi formed Planters Peanut Company and built a new peanut processing plant in Suffolk in 1913. Obici and Peruzzi dramatically increased the demand for