Understanding soil is a basic skill needed by anyone interested in agriculture, environmental science, gardening, natural resource management, and water quality. Traditionally, to gain that skill, a person has had to pay college tuition and spend long hours in a classroom. Now, with the power of the internet at your fingertips, the NC Cooperative Extension Service is bringing a first class Introduction to Soil education to your office, dining room table, or local coffee shop. Learn more about this open online course at http://go.ncsu.edu/introduction-to-soil
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Understanding soil is a basic skill needed by anyone interested in agriculture, environmental science, gardening, natural resource management, and water quality. Traditionally, to gain that skill, a person has had to pay college tuition and spend long hours in a classroom. Now, with the power of the internet at your fingertips, the NC Cooperative Extension Service is bringing a first class Introduction to Soil education to your office, dining room table, or local coffee shop. Learn more about this open online course at http://go.ncsu.edu/introduction-to-soil
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Extension's Gardening Portal at NC State University provides access to a wealth of information, events and resources for gardeners in North Carolina. Managed by the State Urban Horticulture Specialist and Cooperative Extension Horticulture Agents throughout the state, it is your doorway to guidance about successfully growing vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers and ornamentals in your landscape.
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Plant sciences initiative could spark NC economic growth, study finds A new economic study, released Jan. 12, shows that North Carolina has an opportunity to be the global hub for advanced plant sciences research and for the application of that research to expanding agricultural productivity. One page summary of the Initiative View the Report
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NC food processing and manufacturing initiative feasiblity study released The agricultural resources, industrial capacity and research innovation assets present in North Carolina create opportunities to catalyze development of value-added food processing and manufacturing businesses, according to a joint NC State-NCDA&CS economic feasibity study released Jan. 12. One page summary of the Initiative View the Full Report
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Our partners at the State Climate Office of North Carolina provide the most accurate climate information to the citizens of our state. Their website includes recent news from their Twitter feed, featured products, quick links, and a map of data from their ECONet weather stations. You can also view data from more than 1,000 Southeastern weather stations on their full CRONOS map or follow their blog.
READ THE REST »Our laboratory has recently published a study which measured the differences between our current integrated pest management (IPM) recommendations for tobacco insect management and what growers actually do. This was the topic of Jeremy Slone’s MORE » – from 
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Please see the bulletin (link below) from the National Cotton Council regarding practices for keeping harvested cotton contamination-free. This is an important issue that could affect marketability of cotton. Careful attention to these practices MORE » – from Cotton
The 2016 cotton crop is quickly winding down and it’s nearly time to be thinking about preparing this crop for harvest. Earlier planted fields, especially those that had little to no rain in MORE » – from Cotton
You have probably heard your child humming or singing to himself. He may even make up his own songs and likes playing his imaginary guitar. Young children are musically creative by nature! They MORE »
Everyone is exposed to stress during their lives but some are able to deal with it better than others. We all know that being a parent is hard and not an easy job MORE »
Spring is almost here! “Springtime” refers to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. Robin Williams wrote, Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” With this season comes MORE »
Do you remember when you were young and you had a set of wooden blocks to play with? Do you remember how you loved to build tall towers and other buildings with them? MORE »
Last week’s storm reminded us that it’s winter. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu season occurs in the fall and winter, in the United States. Seasonal flu activity MORE »
Children must learn to distinguish between needs and wants. When they learn to do this, it becomes easier to budget money and they learn about priorities. Everyone has the same basic needs but MORE »
Self-control is a skill that children need to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. Developing self-control begins at birth and continues throughout our lives. It is a skill that is critical to children’s school MORE »
What is Attitude? Attitude is a predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation. Attitude starts with feelings and ends with action. Your attitude MORE »
Barely a day goes by when Zika virus is not in the news headlines. As of August 31st 2016, the CDC has reported 2,717 confirmed case of Zika virus in the U.S. New MORE » – from Entomology
During summer 2015, we changed our insecticide recommendations for Blackland soybean growers (click here for last year’s article). This year’s screening results confirm these recommendations that both Intrepid Edge and Steward are the MORE » – from Soybeans
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