North Carolina leads nation in farmland LOSS

here's an interesting article from the Raleigh News and Observer about farmland loss in North Carolina:

http://www.newsobserver.com/print/tuesday/front/story/647357.html

By the numbers from the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE :
300,000: Acres of farmland the state lost between 2003 and 2006, equivalent to losing about an entire county.
1,000: Number of farms North Carolina lost in 2006.
1: North Carolina's ranking in the country in 2006 of the number of farms lost.