We have a diverse workforce here at the NCDA&CS that focuses on consumer protection, food safety, agricultural marketing, accuracy of weights and measures, plant conservation, livestock protection…and more. Through our Faces in the Field series, we’ll talk to one of our employees and provide a behind-the-scenes look at what they do to serve North Carolina. […]
Last week, Triangle Business Journal highlighted the 2008-09 list of North Carolina’s top field trip destinations, and two N.C. agritourism farms made the cut. Carolina Field Trips Magazine puts together the annual list and also includes the number of students that visit each of the top 10 places. The two farms, Lazy Five Ranch of […]
Each week we’ll round up the latest N.C. agricultural headlines from newspapers 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. “Eating pork won’t make you sick, producers say,” WRAL: Humans cannot contract a strain of swine flu that has […]
Finding a moonlit hayride in the mountains, alpaca farm in the Piedmont or a pick-your-own berry field near the coast just got easier. Full-color, fold-out maps of North Carolina agritourism farms will soon be available at the nine state Welcome Centers, county extension offices, state farmers markets and other spots across the state. You can […]