agriculture

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 […]

Meet Lupin—the new wolf in town.Tucked away on the campus of North Carolina State University in the Marye Anne Fox Science Teaching Laboratory stands the 6′ 4″ tall rare titan arum, or corpse flower and […]