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Cover photo for 4-H Plant Sale for 2024

4-H Plant Sale for 2024

4-H Plant Sale 2024 orders can be made online, by cash, or by check! Links for the online store is …

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Prune Your Fruit Trees in February

February is the time to prune fruit trees such as apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach & nectarine. Don’t wait. According …

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WNC 4-H Pullet Program 2024

Henderson and Buncombe Counties have partnered together to offer another year of the WNC 4-H Pullet Project! The program …

Agritourism in North Carolina

Agritourism – a hybrid of agriculture and tourism – refers to activities or events that take place on working …

Cover photo for 2023 Waynesville Bull Test Sale

2023 Waynesville Bull Test Sale

Mark your calendars and come shop at the Bull Sale, Dec 2nd! WNC Regional Livestock Center – Canton, NC. North …

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7th Avenue Brooklyn Community Garden

Situation Located adjacent to Sullivan Park in the historic 7th Avenue District of Hendersonville, NC this community garden was started …

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

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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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