"Export Boom Helps Farms, but Not American Factories" - NYTimes.com

And what has this meant for NC agricultural exports?

Here are the state figures (the years appear first and correspond to the numbers below - here is the link to a clear chart):


North Carolina Agricultural Exports by Commodity (in millions of dollars)
Commodities
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Total
1204.6
1327.9
1361.3
1293.7
1312.0
1572.8
1578.9
1791.6