The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is seeking applications from N.C. farmers who are interested in technical and financial assistance to help them get an energy audit of their operation. Funding for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program On-Farm Energy Initiative will be available soon. A USDA announcement says farmers should work with their local USDA […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” This week, Mike Davis subs for Rhonda and talks with Commissioner Troxler about a change in state law that will help N.C. farmers. Commissioner Troxler tells Mike that House Bill 119, among other things, modified the state’s […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” This week Commissioner Troxler and Rhonda discuss the three Dig Into Local food shows scheduled for this month. The shows will highlight farmers who sell directly to the public. Two of the food shows will be held […]
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. “‘Five Farms’ a documentary capsule of a world few know,” Durham Herald-Sun: “My granddaddy was a sharecropper. So I’m […]