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Kentucky Farm Bureau Initiative Addresses Loss of Farm Acreage Across the State
from AFBF
On April 9, Kentucky Farm Bureau announced the launch of its new Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative. The KFTI is a strategic project focused on helping farm families find ways to keep their acreage in active agricultural production as they consider the future of that land.
The need for efforts like the
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National Agricultural Statistics Service releases North Carolina’s 2024 planting intentions.
from NCDA&CS
Summary: At the beginning of the month the National Agricultural Statistics Service released the 2024 planting intentions for North Carolina with cotton, flue-cured tobacco and soybeans looking to pick up small increases in acreage. Corn, peanut and winter wheat plantings are projected down.
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Next Gen Ag: Education and Livestock working hand in hand
from NCDA&CS
Next Gen Ag is a year long series that will run on our In The Field blog, Facebook page, Instagram page and Twitter account. Each Wednesday, we will highlight a young person pursuing a career in the agriculture industry. Individuals can be in high school, college, or recent graduates who
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‘The typical result is annihilation’; N.C. Forest Service tracks the eastern front of the emerald ash borer
from NCDA&CS
Purple prism traps, covered in sticky solution, are heavily utilized across the state to trap and detect emerging EAB infestations. Photo by Lili Stapel, N.C. Forest Service.
Wayne Langston, forest health specialist with the N.C. Forest Service, points out galleries left behind by EAB on the inside of the bark of
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