Pee Dee farmers remain dedicated to tobacco production

 

OLANTA, S.C. (AP) On a warm and breezy early September afternoon, just down the aptly named Tobacco Road, M.D. Floyd and his brothers Larry and Thurmond were busy with a crop that constitutes a small but important part of our state's agribusiness and history.

Tobacco put Mullins on the map as the tobacco headquarters of the state, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s, city-block-size warehouses were devoted to the desire to wrest a larger market share from the other Carolina. Continued