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RALEIGH – As North Carolina’s fall wildfire season approaches, the N.C. Forest Service is urging the public to protect homes and neighborhoods by taking action to reduce wildfire risk and using recommended best practices to prevent wildfires. “Wildfire prevention and risk reduction are two important areas that each of us have the ability to directly impact,” […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas have closed a majority of schools following mandatory evacuations for some islands in the archipelago as Tropical Storm Imelda drops heavy rain and unleashes flooding in the northern Caribbean. A tropical storm warning was in effect Monday for parts of the northwestern Bahamas, including Eleuthera, the Abacos, Grand Bahama Island and the surrounding keys. Heavy rains also were forecast along the coastline of North and South Carolina. Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto churned in open waters nearby, which forecasters said would cause Imelda to abruptly turn to the east-northeast, away from the southeastern United States coast.

Food insecurity is on the rise, and ignoring it won’t make it go away. In states like Iowa, hunger is growing in each of the 99 counties. It’s an invisible issue to many, but your neighbors could be silently struggling to find the resources to take care of their next meal. This month is Hunger […]

South Carolina State University recently announced that its 1890 Research and Extension Program will take over management of Freewoods Farm, a historic Black heritage site located in Myrtle Beach off Highway 707. The farm had been managed for decades by O’Neal Smalls, who told WPDE that despite the leadership change, the mission remains the same. […]

If your thoughts of pumpkin are on pies, a Cooperative Extension expert says there are many ways to prepare it — and many nutritional benefits from consuming it. You may be familiar with the term superfood — food rich in nutrients such as antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, etc., that can contribute to improved health. Probably […]

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Imelda has formed near the Bahamas and is forecast to become a hurricane curving away from the southeast U.S. seacoast early this week. Imelda was churning up rough seas, wind and rain on Sunday around the Bahamas and nearby islands, just over 350 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto remains a dangerous Category 4 storm farther out in the Atlantic on a forecast track that could threaten Bermuda. In the Southeast U.S., South Carolina’s governor urged residents Sunday to remain alert, while North Carolina declared a state of emergency for any impacts from Imelda even though forecasters say the storm should spin away from the East Coast in coming days.

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. It’s been another quiet week in the grain markets, with low volume and no enthusiasm. Soybeans have been trading sideways after the big sell-off Friday and Monday. Argentina announced a temporary suspension of the export tariff for […]

So, it continues to be a dry Carolinas. Over the last week or so, we have not gotten any substantive rain. Over the last week, got state assistant climatologist Corey Davis here. Corey, is the drought getting worse than we were at last week? “Well, Kyle, this is where we’ll start with the bad news […]

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (NCN News) – One year after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, recovery continues across the mountains. The storm killed 108 people, caused more than 2,000 landslides and left businesses, roads and communities in ruins. While many restaurants, farms and attractions are reopening, most small businesses still have not returned to pre-Helene revenues. State officials say bipartisan support has brought new funding and infrastructure repairs, but rebuilding remains a long-term effort.

WOODFIN, N.C. (AP) — It’s been only a year since Hurricane Helene hammered the southeast U.S. from Florida to the Carolinas. Some of the heaviest damage came from flooding in the North Carolina mountains, where some 30 inches of rain turned gentle streams into walls of water that swept away anything in their path. The worst wreckage has been cleared away, but cleanup crews are still at work plucking smaller debris from waterways throughout the region. In the understandable haste to rescue people and restore their lives to some semblance of normalcy, some fear the recovery efforts compounded Helene’s impact on the ecosystem. Contractors hired to remove vehicles, shipping containers, shattered houses and other large debris from waterways sometimes damaged sensitive habitat.