Raleigh, North Carolina

National Trip Day 9 A rainy day in Raleigh. This says it all! Our first meeting was with the USDA APHIS Agriculture Pest Survey Program. Visiting the NC State Farmers Market and meeting with Dr. Blake Brown of NC Agriculture Leadership Program Look at the size of those carrots! Visiting to the North Carolina Dept. … Read more

Dail Farms Visit, Roy Thagard and Jimmy & Deborah Dail

National Trip Day 8 County Extension Agent Roy Thagard introduced us to Daik Farms owners Jimmy and Deborah Dail.  Dail farms rotates tobacco and produce and also raise hogs for pork producer Murphy-Brown.  Tobacco starts out as seedlings in a hydroponic medium for 60-80 days.  One 7,500 sf shade house produces seedlings for 90 planted … Read more

Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS)

National Trip Day 8 CEFS provides a farm site for ag research contactd by various customers.  Andy negotiates with potential users in contractual arrangements that results in data and new farm techniques for farmers state wide.  Andy took us on a windshield bus tour of organic farming, agroforestry, pasture raised beef and dairy cattle, swine … Read more

Andy Meier, Center for Environmental Farming Services (CEFS),Cherry Farm

National Trip Day 8 CEFS is a collaboration of NC State University, NC A&T State University and NC Dept of Agriculture.  No this is not a picture of Superintendent Andy Meier.  But we all agreed he’s bullish on NC ag with as much energy as this fella.  Andy just does’t like having his picture taken.

Captiol Tour, AFB, Nat’l Sustainable Ag, DC Central Kitchen

National Trip Day 5 The day started off bright and early for some of us, as we headed out for a tour of the Capitol before the start of our official agenda. Our super awesome tour guide, Jennica’s cousin Paul Sullivan, astounded the group with his amazing catalog of historical facts and anecdotes about the … Read more

USDA at Beltsville

At the metro station taking the bus… Happy faces this morning taking the bus to the USDA Ag research services in Beltsville after a 40 min ride on the Metro from Rosselyn to Greenbelt.  At this point of the trip we are Metro experts! Arriving at the USDA Ag research Center… Beautiful view of the … Read more

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