Its called PRIVATE PROPERTY ya yokel. If farmer A wants to sell his land for people to build homes on that is his business. If farmer B wants to maintain it as farm land that is also his business.
And if you think "carpetbaggers" are moving here to buy land and build on it to stop the growing of tobacco you are in need of a very large shipment of tinfoil.
Look here goob. I'm not saying that it was the reason just a direct effect of the 'explosion' shall we say of implants. And my understanding of the meeting was that she does not want to sell her land, but may be required to sell it to the city for more growth (i.e. townhouses, strip malls, destruction of the beauty of Eastern NC). And that does happen