North Carolina’s small-grain farmers have extended the assessment on the following crops: wheat, oats, rye, barley, rapeseed, canola and grain sorghum. Ninety-six percent of voting farmers approved the assessment in a referendum Aug. 7. The assessment period will run from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2019. The assessment amount of half of 1 percent […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” North Carolina’s small-grain growers will vote Aug. 7 on whether to continue an assessment on their crops. The N.C. Small Grain Growers Association is sponsoring the referendum, asking farmers to renew the assessment for another six growing […]
Farmers will have a chance to vote on whether to continue a longstanding program that supports agricultural research, after the N.C. Board of Agriculture gave its approval to the referendum Thursday. In a meeting at the State Fairgrounds, the board voted 8-0 to approve the referendum for Nickels for Know-How, which provides funding for agricultural […]
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. “UNCG nutritionist seeks family for locavore makeover,” Greensboro News & Record: Wanted: Greensboro family whose meals consist mostly of […]