By phhi_adminCongress recently passed a new farm bill. Dr. Blake Brown, economist and policy analyst, takes a look at what it means to North Carolina agriculture and beyond.
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By phhi_adminDr. Blake Brown, director of the Program for Value-Added & Alternative Agriculture, writes about North Carolina agriculture and how it has changed over the past two decades, the factors that drove the change and what this means for today’s farmers.
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If you’re a farmer that sells your products at a local market, how do you respond when a customer asks you how to prepare a certain food item? If your response is, “I don’t know, I just grow it!” then The Produce Lady can help you.
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By phhi_adminBlake Brown, director of the Program for Value-Added and Alternative Agriculture, is quoted in a Raleigh News & Observer article on the next generation of farmers. Read more. |Events
By phhi_admin North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the North Carolina Fresh Produce Safety Task Force invite N.C. Cooperative Extension agents to fresh produce safety training. The intended audience includes agriculture, family & consumer science, and any other agents having an audience dealing with fresh produce production, harvesting, storing, transporting and marketing.
2009 Dates
April 30 & May 1 – Mountain Horticultural Crop Research & Extension Center, Mills River (formerly known as Fletcher). Registration deadline is April 16.
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