Hemp.
The crop that most helped the Virginia colony was tobacco. This was also the main reason why most settlers settled in this colony.
The settlers grew tobacco as their cash crop. This got them a lot of money.
Tobacco
At least 2,000 years ago. Ancient Roman literature details some crop rotation methods.
They did not practice crop rotation. The soil be lacking in nutrients, crops wouldn't grow and without the crop roots, the soil became very mobile in the wind.
Hemp
Settlers in Brazil grew sugarcane as their first crop. The crops were labor intensive which was a catalyst for bringing in slave labor.
Hemp.
corn
sugar cane
tobacco
Tobacco
tabacco
815 AD
They asked the English settlers for help
North Carolinians cash crop was tobacco, it was the leading cash crop. Ranked by acres planted, soybeans are first and corn is the second leading crop. Cotton was the state's leading crop until the early 1950s.
Because of the cotton crop.