The end of the year is always a good time to look back to see what you accomplished and any changes you want to make looking ahead. The department’s social media accounts – Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter) – are key communication tools and that was really obvious when we reviewed the … Read more
It’s a New Year and we have a lot of exciting new things to share with you. As we wrapped up 2023, we launched the department’s new website after close to a year’s worth of work behind the scenes to create this new, more user friendly site. And, as with the start of every New … Read more
The department has reached the one-year mark on a social media series introducing followers to North Carolina farmers. It’s been a popular feature so we plan to continue it through July and will then launch a follow-up series introducing people to young farmers across the state. Summary: Social media continues to be a great way … Read more
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. “A Soybean Surge Makes Trump’s Trade War Look Deceptively Good,” WRAL: President Donald Trump’s trade war is expected to temporarily bolster U.S. economic growth, in part because Beijing tried to … Read more
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. “Family Trees: Selling Christmas trees more of a passion than a business,” Winston-Salem Journal: When Christmas tree lots start popping up all over the city, the horticulturist inside of me gets … Read more
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. “Honeybees pick up ‘astonishing’ number of pesticides via non-crop plants,” Phys.Org: A Purdue University study shows that honeybees collect the vast majority of their pollen from plants other than … Read more
