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 […]
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. “Editorial – Early arrival of hurricane season means it’s time to check preparedness,” Wilmington Star-News: Today marks the official […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” USDA’s “Prospective Plantings Report” won’t be released until March 30, but it’s already obvious that North Carolina farmers planted a bunch of winter wheat for harvest later this year. A January report indicated that 800,000 acres of […]
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. “How safe is our country’s food supply?” Hendersonville Times-News: When the year began, my 8-year-old son got sick, and […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Three pending free-trade agreements could mean a boost to N.C. agriculture. The trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama would eliminate or reduce tariffs on a variety of agricultural products. If Congress approves them, it is […]
North Carolina farmers are planting more acres of cotton, tobacco, sweet potatoes and winter wheat this year, but fewer acres of corn, peanuts and soybeans, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June Acreage Report. Cotton growers intend to plant 760,000 acres, 38 percent more than last year and the most since 2006. Across the […]
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 talk about what N.C. farmers will plant this year. Farmers in the state say they will plant more acres of cotton, sweet potatoes and wheat this year compared with 2010, according […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Commissioner Troxler recently returned from an agricultural trade mission to China. The purpose of the trip was to increase export opportunities for N.C. tobacco, cotton, soybeans, wheat and other commodities. The commissioner also opened a North Carolina […]
This week, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and representatives from several N.C. commodity groups are visiting Beijing on a trade mission. Andrea Ashby, NCDA&CS assistant director of public affairs, is also in China and will be posting periodic updates of the visit. North Carolina ports and their ability to serve farmers and agribusiness companies was a […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler will lead an agricultural trade mission to China next week. The trip will focus on selling more N.C. tobacco, soybeans, wheat, cotton and peanuts to the Asian nation. China is now the world’s […]
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. “Perdue: N.C. dodged a bullet with Earl,” WRAL-TV: Hurricane Earl churned past the Outer Banks, and its powerful gusts […]
The June acreage report was released yesterday, detailing the planting intentions for several major crops in North Carolina.This report is used for planning purposes and also has a short effect on commodity prices on Wall Street. This report is an update to the Prospective Planting report released by USDA in late March. A follow-up report […]