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By Lina Tran for Grist.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for North Carolina News Service reporting for the Grist-Public News Service Collaboration The first time Chris Smith tried to grow taro on his experimental farm in western North Carolina, the plants were too eager. He’d started them in a heated greenhouse one February day a few years ago, thinking the tropical crop would need plenty of time to establish. Within a month, the taro had sprung up a foot and a half. ...

As temperatures rise and rainfall grows erratic, planting different crops is one way farmers can adapt to climate change.

Sesame can work for North Carolina farmers, particularly in the Sandhills where growing crops has always been a challenge.

RALEIGH - From plants to peacocks, black holes to drug delivery, the winners of the 2021 Envisioning Research contest highlighted the myriad ways that their

A tasty little seed holds great promise for North Carolina grain growers. To improve on-farm diversity and provide income continuity, growers need viable crop rotation options. North Carolina State University  crop and soil sciences researcher David Suchoff thinks sesame is a tempting new alternative crop. He is leading a new $63,000 North Carolina  funded two-year grant to determine the feasibility of sesame production in North Carolina. Sesame is a low-input, drought and heat tolerant crop primarily produced for its high oleic and linoleic acid seed. Suchoff thinks this warm-season, rain-...