With Hurricane Helene past us — and Hurricane Milton making landfall this week— a report from the Farm Bureau shows nearly 100,000 farms operate in the affected counties.

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And, $14.8 billion in crop and livestock production is generated in the affected countries.

Beyond just the farms being impacted, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida have 114 ag implement manufacturing companies among them, according to North American Industry Classification System data.

And, Ag Equipment Intelligence data shows there are 259 farm equipment dealership locations in those states as well.

While it’s not clear yet just what the extent of the agricultural losses are, if just one third of this output were lost, agricultural damages could reach nearly $5 billion, and that doesn’t include damage and losses to the manufacturers and dealerships that are impacted.

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