Danny Vester

News Roundup: Aug. 11-17

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News Roundup

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. “Voting ends noon Monday,” Yadkin Ripple: Yadkin Valley was in 10th place before USA Today stopped posting rankings. Tenth place for Top Ten…. “Tobacco Markets open late,”  Greenville Daily Reflector: A … Read more

It’s a record! Danny Vester’s 65.9 pound cantaloupe brings World’s Largest back to North Carolina

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  Danny Vester of Spring Hope grows them big. The Nash County native is the only North Carolinian to grow three pumpkins over 1,200 pounds each, breaking the state record twice. This week at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh, Vester broke a world record previously set more than a decade ago at the Alaska … Read more