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state governments are assisting in pushing these measures
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 @ 8:47 am
By: John Steed
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It is National Future Farmers of America (FFA) Week and state leaders are highlighting the importance of the FFA, especially in a state like North Carolina, where agriculture is the No. 1 industry.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Hog farming is an integral part of the agricultural industry in North Carolina, contributing $10 billion in economic output a year
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The agricultural industry heavily relies on poultry farming, and it plays a significant role in supporting the economy. However, poultry farmers often face challenges when dealing with large integrator companies, which control various aspects of their operations.
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 11:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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nattacks on farming are attacks on our food supply
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 11:26 am
By: John Steed
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Farming subsidies have been a contentious issue in the agricultural industry for years. Although they were initially designed to support smaller farmers, they have ultimately ended up harming them. In this article, we will examine some of the ways in which farming subsidies have had adverse effects
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Permanently ban owners from farming elsewhere
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 2:04 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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The Not-in-My-Backyard (NIMBY) mentality is going after oysters. Complaining about unsightly materials and bad smells, some property owners on the coastline want oyster farmers to do their business elsewhere or call for moratoriums to be placed on new farming leases.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Farming company Deere & Co., known as John Deere, signed an agreement allowing farmers to fix their own machinery or seek repairs from independent workers on Sunday.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 9:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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Largest Farmers’ Organization in the United States Fact Checks (and Crushes) Cheri Beasley’s False Narrative the Day Before She Can Misrepresent the Views of NC Farmers on the Debate Stage
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 2:39 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Event leads to oral history project remembering Black farming families in eastern NC
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 9:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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Online course guides physicians on treating toxic exposures farmworkers might encounter
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Fishing, farming and forestry have historic foundations in our state. We also have a history of migration, moving from easternmost to increasingly westward locations.
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Agriculture remains North Carolina’s top industry. Researchers have pointed to a rapidly growing population, loss of farmland, climate shifts, and emerging crop diseases as some of the complex agricultural challenges that do not fit into particular academic or research silos.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 8:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Those of us who live in or regularly spend time along North Carolina’s coast recognize there are five drivers attracting and contributing to the region: tourism, the military, farming, forestry and fishing.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 9:53 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today marks National Agriculture Day, a time to celebrate America’s farmers, ranchers and growers as we recognize agriculture’s importance to our nation. Despite the importance of the agriculture community, Biden’s policies have left America’s farmers out to dry.
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 @ 11:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Do you know where your food comes from? Aside from saying Harris Teeter, Food Lion, or Wegman’s, it is an important question to many North Carolinians.
Published: Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 11:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Foods full of toxins if Gates gets his way
Published: Saturday, September 18th, 2021 @ 6:40 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A new state law streamlines permitting for hog farms that capture biogas, and it moves some control over farming regulations to the local level.
Published: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU research team awarded $1.5M grant to study watershed resiliency
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Postdoctoral scholar Janire Pascual-Gonzalez has her eyes on new ways to boost N.C. agriculture
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 10:06 am
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina hemp farmers are bracing for an onslaught of federal regulation.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 315, the North Carolina Farm Bill of 2019, passed the Senate June 17 by a 31-14 vote. S.B. 315 officially authorizes and regulates statewide hemp farming, among other things.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper Implores President to End Federal Shutdown to Speed Hurricane Recovery, Help FarmersGovernor Roy Cooper today wrote to President Donald Trump to urge him to end the federal government shutdown that is holding back hurricane recovery efforts and threatening North Carolina's farming economy.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 12:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Have you driven around North Carolina recently? More people have decorated with outdoor lights, blowups and festive displays than we've seen in years
Published: Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 @ 9:50 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the President for signing the 2018 Farm Bill into law
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2018 @ 1:30 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Instead of going over the river and through the woods to grandma's house we traveled east this Thanksgiving
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2018 @ 1:54 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In the United States, there are between 45 and 46 million turkeys killed each year by profit-seeking farmers for consumption at Thanksgiving dinners around the country
Published: Thursday, November 29th, 2018 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is hard to imagine what would be on tables this Thanksgiving if it were not for North Carolina farmers
Published: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 @ 1:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House District 21 (Portions of Sampson, Duplin, and Wayne counties.)
Published: Thursday, October 25th, 2018 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A handful of lawsuits which threatened to upend North Carolina's November elections resolved quietly over the past few days
Published: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 @ 12:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper needs to sign the NC Farm Bill now. It is abundantly clear that the North Carolina farming community is under attack from out-of-state organizations who are using the tactic of repeated lawsuits against farmers to drive them out of business
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2018 @ 5:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As eastern North Carolina farmers continue to adjust to commercial challenges in the face of an aging population and overall decline in farmland, one East Carolina University professor is using the power of economics to aid the region
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 6:31 am
By: ECU News Services
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As more and more rural communities push back against renewable energy developers and the encroachment of solar generating plants on open space, another fight gets far less attention
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Federal environmental regulations are battering farmers, and public policy research analyst Darren Bakst believes there is a mechanism to address the plight
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2017 @ 10:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, bipartisan legislation co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) making it easier for family farmers to reorganize debts when facing bankruptcy received final approval in Congress and is headed to the president's desk for signature
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2017 @ 9:51 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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A reporter for the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825 wrote, "The mining interest of the state is now only second to the farming interest."
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory was joined by Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, state legislators and agriculture leaders from throughout North Carolina today as he signed the Farm Act of 2016
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2016 @ 3:49 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Parts of North Carolina are growing rapidly. Other areas, usually but not always "rural," are stagnant or worse
Published: Sunday, June 19th, 2016 @ 2:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Farmland, a film by Oscar-Winning Director James Moll, will take an intimate look at the lives of farmers and ranchers in their '20s, all of whom are now responsible for running their farming business.
Published: Saturday, May 31st, 2014 @ 8:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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