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Doug Darch’s farm in rural Wake County is one of many farms fighting for survival in the war on inflation. To meet the problems of inflation, Darch’s strategy is careful planning, wise spending, self-sufficiency, and long work hours. In this article, Darch discusses silo-building operation on his farm and the challenges he has faced with inflation.
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33401
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The 1986 General Assembly appropriated three-million-dollars to the North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Commission to continue and expand a cost-share program for agricultural non-point source pollution control. This will allow the program to be extended into seventeen additional counties located in the coastal area. Farmers who receive cost sharing will be required to perform certain fertilizer and waste management practices.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 238, Oct 1986,
p5, map
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34286
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Lacey Queen is a pig-and-cattle farmer with a small market store and a tiny barbecue joint, the Tin Shed, in Spruce Pine. She raises pigs using sustainable practices on the family’s Soggy Bottom Farms in Little Switzerland. This article describes Queen’s business and operations on the family farm.
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34384
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Bertie County farmers are farming for industrial hemp through a pilot program sanctioned by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. The production of industrial hemp was made legal in 2015, as farmers are looking for alternative crops to grow. There is still much to learn about growing this new commodity, but industrial hemp may play a role in local farming’s future.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 3, June/July 2018,
p28-30, il, por
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36199
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This type of garden can nourish all, by lowering harmful insect populations and maintaining pollinator populations. Plants nourishing for farm animals include Artemisia and marigold. Examples of plants nourishing for humans are sponge gourd and sheep sorrel. Plants discouraging pests are bay laurel and mint. Plants good for insects include spicebush and dill.
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36276
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The silent killer for decades in the farming industry is nematodes. Possibly ridding plants of this microscopic roundworm by 2020 is the root knot nematode experiment. This research project, backed by the Gates Foundation, is being undertaken by AgBiome, a biochemical company in Durham.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 2, February 2016,
p69-70
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38139
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The kitchen belonging to the author’s grandmother was a reflection of personal ingenuity as a cook and a time before the predominance of convenience food. Attesting to Bertie Dameron’s creativity in the kitchen included pickled fruit and canning garden vegetables. Reflections of yesteryear included Bertie Dameron buying mountain apples and Georgia peaches from trucks, whose arrival was heralded by telephone party lines.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 10 Issue 6, December 2018,
p62-63
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38216
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The promise of better food through science was recognized in two initiatives promising to generate growth in jobs, markets for farmers, and manufacturing. One was the Plant Sciences Initiative, the other the Food Processing Innovation Center. Collectively, they promised to produce greater crop numbers, pioneer crop varieties, and lower farm animals’ feed expense. Collectively, they may also help to assure the supply of food needed to feed the world’s population, projected to be 9.6 billion by 2050.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 38 Issue 3, March 2018,
p31-32, 34
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38276
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What makes a farm work, according to the author, is the relationship between farmers and tractors. Another relationship discussed by Hughes reflects the tractor’s enduring importance in North Carolina. An illustration for this relationship is the anecdote about a farmer, his tractor, and child he trusted to operate it. Illustrations of the tractor’s importance in North Carolina is many counties having multiple tractor dealerships, her comparison between tractor and car dealerships, and assertion tractor dealerships are often community centers and places of business.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 5, Oct 2012,
p174-176, 178-184, 186-188, 190, 192
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41264
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Over the course of several decades and multiple essays, author Wendell Berry has outlined environmental plans for switching from industrialized agriculture to independent and local farmers and manufacturers.
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43734
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In this article the author is discussing how four farms in Durham are considered century farms which is a classification that protects the land from future development. There is over 2,000 farms in North Carolina that are considered century farms. The director of N.C Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Andrea Ashbly, states that the century farm designation is meant to help recognize farms that have had decades or centuries of hard work put into them by the families that have lived there. As well as applauding the families that kept the farm running and within the family.
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