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Farmers eye options for preserving agricultural land

‘We can’t afford to put off preserving farmland,’ Linda Odom Pryor told fellow farmers last week during a presentation on options for saving agricultural land.

By Bill Moss, Published: May 4, 2024

Apple orchards become subdivisions, a forest is chain-sawed for a distribution center and the suburbs creep into the agricultural heart of the county. Studies rank North Carolina among the most threatened states in terms of loss of farmland and Henderson County is among the most endangered.

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