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2024 Apple Recipe Contest

Do you have an amazing apple recipe? Put it to the test at the 2024 NC Apple Festival – …

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Pest Alert - Flies

Fly Control Do you live near a livestock farm? Do you own horses, cows, goats, rabbits, chickens or some other …

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The Malnutrition Phenomenon

The North Carolina Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory System has diagnosed a significant number of starvation deaths in North Carolina livestock …

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Pest Alert - Ambrosia Beetles

Ambrosia beetles are killing trees across Western North Carolina. As more people move to the area and plant susceptible …

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Establishing a Cut Flower Farm

The idea of farming for cut flowers is becoming more popular. Like everything, farming flowers is a lot of …

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Rabbits in the Landscape

Though Easter is a time often adorned with bunnies delivering colorful eggs to your garden, more often those little …

High Tunnels

High Tunnel Growers Workshop

When: Thursday, March 28, 2024 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Where: Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, 455 Research Drive, Mills …

Recent Publications related to Agriculture & Food

Graph showing the relationship between turkey weight (in pounds) and total heat produced (in BTU/bird) for genetic lines: 1974-1977 and 1992-1998

Ventilating to Cool Modern Grower Turkeys

As heat stress is one of the most significant management challenges facing the N.C. turkey …

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Neighbor Complaints: The Basics of North Carolina's Right to Farm and Bona Fide Farm Zoning

Though impossible to measure the incidence of neighbor complaints against farmers, North Carolina public policy …

2025 Peanut Information

This guide for growers, updated annually, provides information on production and pest management practices applicable …

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Results From Large-Plot On-Farm and Research Station Trials

This publication, chapter 14 of the 2025 Peanut Information handbook, describes on-farm trials conducted in …

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Peanut Seed

This publication, chapter 2 of the 2025 Peanut Information handbook, presents information on peanut seed.

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Situation and Outlook

This publication, chapter 1 of the 2025 Peanut Information handbook, describes the current landscape of …

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Variety Development

This publication, chapter 13 of the 2025 Peanut Information handbook, provides information about the peanut …

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Risk of Pests in Peanut, Integrated Pest Management, and Pesticide Stewardship

This publication, chapter 12 of the 2025 Peanut Information handbook, describes integrated pest management and …

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