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14567
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No longer is there justification for referring to the peanut as the \"lowly groundpea;\" it has blossomed into a $23,000,000 crop for farmers.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 32, Jan 1946, p3-4, f
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14986
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No longer is the peanut a lowly goober - it has gone to war! While more than two hundred products are now being made form peanuts, there are many more having a wartime strategic value.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 34, Jan 1943, p1, 24, f
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29320
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Peanut farmers in Virginia and North Carolina have experienced rough seasons of uncertain weather and uncertain prices. North Carolina is a top peanut-producing state, but its peanut harvest fell by about forty-percent in 1980. After last fall’s drought, farmers are also short on seeds and continue the struggle to stay in business.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 9 Issue 4, Apr 1981, p46-54, il, por
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29321
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Once considered a poor man’s food, the peanut has become a scarce and precious commodity in North Carolina. Since December, supermarket shelves usually stocked with peanut butter have stood nearly bare. Some peanut snacks have vanished or doubled and tripled in price, and civic groups have begun looking for other foods to sell as fundraisers.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 9 Issue 4, Apr 1981, p55-56
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31188
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Peanuts have risen from being a cheap but highly nutritious food source, to North Carolina's number three cash crop. During the American Civil War, peanuts became a delight of Union soldiers in the south, and after the War the word spread and the demand grew. Peanut production has expanded rapidly, and six counties in the northeastern region of North Carolina grow 70 percent of peanuts produced in the state, valued at more than $40 million a year.
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43049
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"Boiled, brittled, or bagged at the ballpark, there's a peanut for practically every times and place. We're proud that so many of them com from eastern North Carolina --ranked fifth in the nation for peanut production -- where a whole lot of legumes find purchase in our sandy soil." 64-83Peanuts from field to consumer are described in In this photo essay.
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