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North Carolina’s vanishing number of Black farmers own only 3% of all farms in the state. Their ancestral farming techniques, including conservation tillage

Don’t reduce your nitrogen rates in corn unless you have been over-applying

Wheat was selling at €330 per ton on Wednesday, down from its May high but well above where it stood six months ago, prior to Russia’s special operation in... 24.08.2022, Sputnik International

Registration has opened for North Carolina Cooperative Extension’s Corn and Soybean Field Day, which will begin at 8 a.m. on Aug. 9 at the Oxford Tobacco Research Station.

For the most part, the 2022 North Carolina corn crop is in good shape.

Farmers know the climate is changing but it could take years before research can confirm the effectiveness of agricultural efforts to conserve nitrogen and sequester carbon.

John Hart Ron Heiniger, who grew up and worked on his family’s grain and dairy farm near Powhattan, Kan., has worked in research and Extension at North Carolina State University since 1994. North Carolina farmers must manage insects and diseases constantly. Farming isn’t rocket science. Ron Heiniger always heard that growing up on a crop and dairy farm in Powhattan, Kan. He heard it when he worked on the farm with his father. He heard it from his neighbors when he...