Tobacco grower hopes to pluck a fine crop this year

(The-Dispatch.com) The Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, this is going to be a decent year for Mike Hege’s tobacco.
“If we get a little more water, we’re going to have a pretty fair crop,” Hege said, tugging easily on a tobacco leaf as he spoke.
Troy Coggins, director of the Davidson County branch of the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service, the man to whom Hege was speaking, nodded. Continued