Oral history interview with Lauch Faircloth, July 16, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0070, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Businessmen; Agriculture; History; Swine; Banks and banking; Rural development
Other titles: Interview I-0070, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Lauch Faircloth, July 16, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Successful farmer, businessman, and politician Lauch Faircloth discusses the changes in North Carolina's agricultural economy since World War II. Faircloth, who made millions with his flexible, pragmatic approach to business, scoffs at a variety of players in the agricultural scene: stodgy Midwestern farmers, opponents of factory farming, nostalgics, and others. His impatience with people who ignore or resist change seems based on what agricultural innovation can do for poor people by freeing them from punishing work and making food affordable. These people, he maintains, will benefit from the increasing industry consolidation he predicts.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Lauch Faircloth, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:30:03.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0070, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 32 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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