Wes Hunter is the ninth generation of his family to grow crops near present-day Lake Norman, a lineage dating to the 1700s.
“I’ve been around a lot of farmers, met a lot of farmers,” he said. “I’ve never met a ninth-generation farmer. Never met a ninth-generation anything.”
Ten or 12 years ago, he and his father, Gene, worked nearly 700 acres from east Huntersville to Mount Mourne in southern Iredell County near Mooresville, he said…