agriculture

With creative flair, the perfect recipe, farm fresh ingredients and the skill to duel in the kitchen, the Got to Be NC Competition Dining Series is heating up this weekend for its final battle.The Competition […]

Friday night lightsCows, kids, and country music bumping behind impromptu line dancing in the stalls at the Jim Graham building are the order of business on Friday night. These youth livestock exhibitors are here to […]

British American Tobacco has offered to buy out U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American, Inc. in a $47 billion takeover that would create the world’s biggest listed tobacco company with brands including Newport, Lucky Strike, and […]

British American Tobacco has offered to buy out U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American, Inc. in a $47 billion takeover that would create the world’s biggest listed tobacco company with brands including Newport, Lucky Strike, and […]

Do you know about the persimmon? Y’ought to because the persimmon tree is native to North Carolina and it can be found growing wild in all 100 of our counties.Some say you can predict winter […]

Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to 5 million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state’s top environmental official said on Wednesday, hurting a major contributor to its economy.Donald van […]

Over four centuries ago Sir Walter Raleigh described the muscadine as being, “On the sand and on the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well as on every little shrub … […]

The NC State Fair was born of a desire to improve North Carolina agriculture. In 1852 Dr. John F. Tompkins, an agricultural journal editor observed that the farmers throughout the state were using inconsistent methods […]