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RALEIGH – Ford’s Gourmet Foods, the master distributor for North Carolina-produced brands including Wine Nuts, Fire Dancer Jalapeno Peanuts, Earth Family Organics and Naturals and acclaimed Bone Suckin’ Sauces, was recently awarded the 2024 North American Agricultural Marketing Officials (NAAMO) Marketer of the Year Award. Nominated by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ […]

There are still a surprising number of producers, at 21.3 percent, who don’t have access to the internet, according to data released from the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Many of the available options for internet access aren’t adequate for accessing precision agriculture in rural America. Census of Agriculture data says American producers saw moderate improvement […]

RALEIGH – Organic growers in North Carolina can apply for partial reimbursement of the cost of becoming certified or for recertification through a program offered by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.  Growers who are certified or recertified between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, can apply for assistance through the program. […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The Pro Farmer Crop Tour got underway yesterday, Monday August 19th. The tour has traveled the same route and used the same yield estimating procedures since 1993 to make year to year comparisons useful. The tour starts […]

I joined farmers Travis and Misty Howard in breaking ground on a new beef processing facility near Roebuck, South Carolina, in Spartanburg County. The Howards’ $2.6 million investment is supported by a $600,000 grant from SCDA. Expanding small processing in South Carolina will create more opportunities for small, in-state facilities to serve the state’s farmers […]

The N.C. State Fair recognizes 11 Farm Families each year as its Farm Family of the Day presented by the Tractor Supply Company. Families are nominated or can apply by Sept. 6 to be entered for a chance to be highlighted at the State Fair.

Officials with the Clemson University Department of Plant Industry (DPI) destroyed multiple secondary nests of yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) in South Carolina near Hilton Head Island. They are the first secondary nests of the yellow-legged hornet found in the state. The nests were found in trees. The search and destroy mission — which included a trapping system and […]

New uses for soy products are being discovered regularly, and one of those uses is for firefighters. The product was developed with help from the United Soybean Board. Dave Garlie is Chief Technology Officer at Cross Plains Solutions. “So we came across this opportunity because we’ve done a lot of projects with United Soybean Board […]

Agriculture is big business in North Carolina, bringing in $100 billion to the state every year. But as labor costs on farms continues to climb, farmers across the area are trying to keep the prices in the grocery store from going up more this year. Lincoln County farmer Allen Davis tells WSOC… “I can’t eat […]

North and South Carolina are still feeling the effects of June’s flash drought. Recent rains have alleviated the effect for many crops, although the corn yield in many places has been decimated. Bob Etheridge is the executive director for the Farm Service Agency in North Carolina, and tells SFN’s Chris Edwards he doesn’t remember seeing […]