'I will never give up in cotton because it's never given up on me.You've got to dance with the one that brought you to the party.'

摘要

Four generations have been involved in farming cotton here in the northeastern part of North Carolina. We've been involved in this labor of love for a long time. My grandfather was a sharecropper, and he and my grandmother had a little bit of land, and that's how it all started. Like many farmers here in this state, we grow many different crops. In fact, we produce seven different crops on about 8,000 acres.Cotton will always be part of the operation. We follow the market and have to be diversified, but cotton will still be planted on more than half of the acreage. The good thing about cotton is that we have the infrastructure in place. Whether it is 50 percent of what we grow or 75 percent like it was two years ago. we are set up to handle it. That's the good thing about our current situation.