About 49% of millennials think the nation's best years are ahead, the survey found. That's a higher percentage than among baby boomers (44%) and generation X (42%), the generation between boomers and millennials.
1 Farms in the United States produced nearly 800 million pounds of tobacco in 2012. 2  In 2012, tobacco was grown in 19 U.S. states, with North Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia accounting for nearly 80% of production.n 2012, tobacco companies spent $9.6 billion marketing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in the United States alone. This amount translates to about $26 million each day, or more than $1 million every hour. 1.
Pecan farmers busy with harvest season. Georgia is the largest pecan producing state in the country growing about 40% of the US crop. With growing demand from China, Georgia growers planted more than 10,000 acres of new pecan trees this year. Now, harvest season is here and farmers have their hands full during their busiest time of the year.