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Source: Brad Robb, FARM PROGRESS, 5/31/19
Marshall Grant, the cotton industry leader instrumental in energizing the southeast regional boll weevil eradication program effort, which was eventually expanded to every other cotton-producing state, has died. The North Carolina farmer had the vision and understanding to realize the necessity of gaining collective support from each state to make the eradication program succeed. “Dad always saw the bigger picture in everything he did,” says David Grant, Marshall’s son and a North Carolina cotton producer himself. For more of this story, click here.
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