By Margaret Newkirk
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Business News
December 6, 2010
Eight years ago, farmers from Alabama were big players in Atlanta’s lively sod market, which flourished during the region’s decades-long housing boom.
That’s not true today, after the state exempted sod from state sales tax, as Alabama had already done.
The number of Alabama farmers shipping grass here dropped and the number of Georgia sod farmers grew, according the president of a sod company near Newnan. "Please do not recommend reinstatement of taxes that will impact our industry's ability to compete," wrote NG Turf's Aaron McWhorter in a letter to the state's Council on Tax Reform and Fairness.
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