Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” The USDA issued its latest crop acreage report for North Carolina on June 28, and the big news is winter wheat acreage. Plantings totaled 990,000 acres, a new record. The other big new is corn acreage. Corn […]
Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” USDA released its 2013 Prospective Plantings report March 28, and North Carolina farmers have indicated they intend to plant more corn, wheat and tobacco this year. Corn plantings are projected to total 890,000 acres, up 3 percent […]
N.C. farmers planted a record 860,000 acres of winter wheat this year and expect to harvest 770,000 acres, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June Acreage Report. Acreage for peanuts and soybeans also is forecast to higher this year, but plantings of corn, cotton and tobacco will be lower. The wheat plantings are up […]
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 […]