Are you a plant killer? Watch this episode of "In the Garden with Bryce Lane" to learn to keep plants alive: [more] • • • Avoid foodborne illness this holiday season by following these Extension tips from #NCSU and Kansas State Univ: [more] • • • For much of NC, Thanksgiving is a great time to plant spring-flowering bulbs. See Extension at #NCSU tips: [more]
Field crops -- tobacco, soybeans, corn, cotton, peanuts, forages and small grains -- pervade North Carolina's rural landscape. But increased foreign competition and other factors make farming these traditional commodities risky. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps by providing growers with the latest research-based information and recommendations on the best varieties and production practices for the state's conditions. Extension also helps growers comply with changing regulations, investigate new higher-value opportunities, develop solid business plans and explore marketing options.
Adam Grady, Jo Ann Stroud, and J.W. Kilpatrick admire Adam's burley tobacco which is hanging to dry in an abandoned hog house. Adam hosted the Duplin County Agribusiness Council Board of Directors on a tour of his first-year burley operation on August 4, 2009 in Sarecta.
Katie Swinson, daughter of Vic and Teresa Swinson, of northern Duplin County is the 2008 Duplin County Peanut Champion. Katie produced 6,232 pounds/acre of peanuts on 50.1 irrigated acres. Katie is also a senior at ECU, majoring in Communications.Pictured left to right is: Bob Sutter, North Carolina Peanut Growers Association CEO, Katie, and Curtis Fountain, Duplin County Extension Field Crops Agent. ... MORE
NC Cooperative Extension is based at North Carolina's two land-grant institutions, NC State University and NC A&T State University, in all 100 counties and on the Cherokee Reservation.
