Each week we round up the latest N.C. agricultural headlines from news outlets across the state and country, as well as excerpts from the stories. Click on the links to go straight to each paper’s full story.
- “Trade mission focuses on tobacco,” Southeast Farm Press: Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is trying to expand foreign markets for North Carolina tobacco during a trade mission to Switzerland and Germany …
- “NC expects robust crop,” Hendersonville Times-News: Hail damage in other areas of the country and a potentially large crop in Henderson County could mean a profitable year for local apple farmers. …
- “Susie’s bill to Perdue,” News & Observer: A bill that would allow tougher penalties for torturing or killing an animal cleared the Senate on Wednesday and now heads to Gov. Bev Perdue to be signed into law. …
- “Brazil to lead agriculture boom as Europe imports,” Charlotte Observer: ROME — The rising economies of Brazil, China, and India will see strong growth in their agricultural sectors in the next decade as output remains stagnant among big importers in Western Europe …
- “Family Farm Tour opens 37 farms to the public,” Asheville Citizen-Times: At Sunswept Farm, the farmers are planting flowers, making bread and food to sell, and planning talks on hydropower. …
- “Blue Mold Continues to Spread in North Carolina,” Carolina-Virginia Farmer: The tobacco disease has now been discovered in seven Down East counties. …
- “Showing cows, ‘making new friends’,” Durham Herald-Sun: Cows in the Bull City? That’s right, and downtown no less. For perhaps the first time in 40 years, the mooing of dairy cows filled the air Saturday at Old North Durham Park on Foster Street …
- “Editorial – We should do all we can to protect our Venus’ flytrap,” Wilmington Star-News: It’s one of millions of plant species that inhabit the Earth. But the Venus’ flytrap is special – the exotic insect-eater only grows naturally within about a 90-minute drive of Wilmington. …