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July 22, 2025

farming

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US egg prices hit record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter

April 19, 2025 Josh Funk and Dee-Ann Durbin

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks. The […]

Article

Nebraska ranchers, farm groups push back on lab-grown meat ban proposal

March 1, 2025 Margery A. Beck

LINCOLN, Neb. — The prospect of banning the sale of so-called lab-grown meat might seem like a no-brainer in Nebraska, where beef is king, but some of the proposal’s staunchest opposition has come from ranchers […]

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Is US breakfast boom contributing to high egg prices?

February 22, 2025 Dee-Ann Durbin

It’s a chicken-and-egg problem: Restaurants are struggling with record-high U.S. egg prices, but their omelets, scrambles and huevos rancheros may be part of the problem. Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant […]

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Calif. farmers enjoy pistachio boom, with much headed to China

November 17, 2024 The Associated Press

LOST HILLS, Calif. — Pistachios are growing fast in California, where farmers have been devoting more land to a crop seen as hardier and more drought-tolerant in a state prone to dramatic swings in precipitation. […]

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Ukraine’s other fight: Growing food for itself and the world

April 5, 2022 Cara Anna and Aya Batrawy, Associated Press

HORDYNIA, Ukraine — Planting season has arrived in Ukraine. Boot marks stamped in the frozen earth have thawed. But the Pavlovych family’s fields remain untouched in a lonely landscape of checkpoints and churches. Over a […]

Article

Troxler says NC ag in good position despite 2020 setbacks

March 11, 2021 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — While 2020 was a hard year for most industries, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, a Republican in his fifth term, said there are very promising signs for the state’s farmers and their […]

Article

What the N.C. Farm Act does and does not do in regard to hog farms

July 9, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The N.C. Farm Act of 2019-20 was signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper in June, but provisions regarding hog farms in the bill were fielding criticism before it was signed. Angie Maier, […]

Jim Young—Reuters
Article

Survey suggests trade deal signings buoyed bankers’ hopes

February 21, 2020 The Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — A new survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states suggests they’re optimistic about the economy over the next few months, thanks to the signings of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada […]

N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services—N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Opinion

ROBBINS: Farmers who comply with the law should be rewarded, not punished

June 26, 2018 Neal Robbins

The N.C. General Assembly recently enacted Senate Bill 711, otherwise known as the N.C. Farm Act of 2018. This 13-page bill — supported by the entire leadership of the House and Senate along with Agriculture […]

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