Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Earlier this month, four men were charged for poaching 900 Venus flytraps from the Holly Shelter Game Land in Pender County. They were arrested by state wildlife officers, and they are the first people to be charged […]
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. Click on the links to go straight to the full story. “Extension mission focus on farms,” Wilmington Star-News: Mention the words cooperative extension today and master gardeners, 4-H Clubs or […]
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. Click on the links to go straight to the full story. “Top bidder pays $5.36 million for NC assets of chicken processor,” The News & Observer: A group led by […]
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. Click on the links to go straight to the full story. “Sierra Nevada brewery will bring tourism, big economic bump to Western North Carolina,” Asheville Citizen-Times: Look for an economic […]
As an avid Smithsonian magazine reader, I was happy to find I could follow news from the publication on Twitter. A recent “tweet” mentioned an article in the February issue about the Venus flytrap, a plant native to only North and South Carolina. The article quoted Laura Gadd, a botantist with the department who has […]
Each month in our “Field Trip” feature, we take readers into the field with a NCDA&CS employee to find out more about the varied types of work that goes on in the Department. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNUKKQ7Ar0I OK, so sometimes you get such a really cool assignment that you can’t even believe your good fortune. I got to […]