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Agriculture is North Carolina’s largest industry, creating 20 percent of the state’s economy....More

The suspension of irrigation permits in portions of southwest Georgia was seen by many farmers as a threat to their livelihoods when it was first announced last summer....More

John Wilde walks slowly between rows of waist-high cotton, stops at a stalk loaded top to bottom with large open bolls, and plucks a handful of fiber from the burrs....More

Peanut acreage in South Carolina rose to more than 100,000 acres last year and interest among growers remains high....More

Edzard van Santen loves a good play on words — “I never turn down a great pun,” the Auburn University agronomy and soils professor says — which is why he intends to name the new switchgrass cultivar he’ll be releasing sometime in the next year ‘My Left Foot.’ Because that’s what it cost him to develop the new cultivar: his left foot....More

The New Year is upon us, which means many of you have probably made a New Year’s resolution or two....More

It's not every day that a walk to your mailbox leads to an opportunity to help shape farm programs, boost rural services and grow your farm future....More

Clay County, Texas farmer Tommy Henderson may not know everything about farming, but he’s got more than the basics covered....More

Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, 2013, the federal estate tax exemption is set to drop from $5.12 million to $1 million while the tax rate is set to rise from 35 percent to 55 percent for estates valued over the exemption amount....More

Scott Travis, a 27-year farming veteran of Spencer County, was honored as the 2012 Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) “Farmer of the Year” during the organization’s 93rd annual meeting in Louisville....More

Ed Barnes bristles when someone criticizes cotton farmers for using too much water....More

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal spoke to the state’s Farm Bureau members Dec. 3, and gave them an overview of tax reform legislation, House Bill 386, passed by the Georgia General Assembly earlier this year....More