Agriculture damage estimates expected this week
Farmers have been hit with a trifecta over the last 24 months. In
Now Florence.
When President
The number of farms and millions of acres in farmland in the state have steadily declined since 2008, according to
Matthew killed about 2,800 hogs and 1.8 million chickens and turkeys. Most published estimates for Florence have doubled those numbers, and they could rise. Matthew also caused about
The trials for hog lawsuits started earlier this year, long before the
"This hurricane couldn't have come at a worse time,"
"I think it's easily going to be in the billions of dollars," he said.
In some cases, including
It is a top-20 county in the state in both corn for grain, and for broilers -- an industry name for chicken raised for meat production. In terms of total sales, broilers are No. 1 with nearly one-third, hogs (19.8 percent) are second and turkeys (9.4 percent) third.
Tobacco is fourth, and the
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