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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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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: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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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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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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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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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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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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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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With the support of Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and MDC, Beaufort County Community College will be providing Beaufort County with healthy cooking classes and community gardens as well as extending its Beau-Fitt program
Published: Thursday, February 16th, 2017 @ 1:38 am
By: Beaufort County Community College
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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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