North Carolina legislators

Senate wins annual milk-chugging contest

It took about a minute for the Senate Speedy Super Sippers to continue their winning streak against the House All-Stars in the annual legislative milk-chugging contest. The event, held at the Legislative Building, occurs each year to raise awareness about North Carolina’s dairy industy. See below for video from today’s competition:  [FieldNotes]HBWVYD_gPfY[/FieldNotes]  North Carolina has 290 dairy farms with […]

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News Roundup

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 […]

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