Record #:

21839

Author(s):

Hughes, Leah

Abstract:

North Carolina ranks fifth in peanut production, producing 435 million pounds in 2012 with a value of $150 million. Luther Powell and his brother-in-law, Jonathan Stokes, started a farm-supply business in in Windsor in Bertie County in 1919. Peanuts was one of the crops they purchased. Although they shared peanuts at the store and in meetings, it was not until 1992 that they began marketing their well-known product, Bertie County Peanuts.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014, p44-49, il, por

Subject(s):

Peanut products--Windsor