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Growing a beautiful, lush lawn in the south can be a frustrating task, especially with cool-season grasses (Tall Fescue, …
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Grape Pest Survey - 4th Week of September
This article is our last post for this grape season. Harvest is complete at all of our locations. We …
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The 71st Annual Crop Protection School will be held Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at the Johnston County Agricultural Center …
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Grape Pest Survey - 3rd Week of September
Our only remaining active locations is our muscadine site in Rowan County. Again, grape berry moth were caught at the …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of September
As harvest continues and we get close to the end of the season, we are finishing the insect scouting …
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Grape Pest Survey - 1st Week of September
Harvest keeps going in a full swing, and about half of our locations are completely harvested with the rest …
Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of August
Two of our locations have completed harvest, and we have concluded our monitoring efforts. We will continue to visit …
How to Protect Your Beehives From Mosquito Spraying Following a Hurricane
How beekeepers can minimize the effects on their hives The devil is in the details, most of which are under …
Late Blight on Tomato Confirmed in Haywood County, NC (Aug 26, 2019)
Late blight on tomato was confirmed in Haywood County on August 26, 2019, and confirmed by microscopic observation of …
Grape Pest Survey - 2nd Week of August
Our first vinifera location, in Rowan Co., began harvest this past week, and as the fruit were gone, we …
Scholarships Still Available for 2019-20
Deadline Sep 13, 2019 Over $20,000 in scholarships for students pursuing a career in horticulture. For more information, contact the HRI …
Grape Pest Survey- 1st Week of August
At our monitoring sites, grapes are ripe, and the first harvest at the Johnston Co. location started this week. …
Grape Pest Survey- 5th Week of July
Glassy winged sharpshooter captures are very low or zero in locations with previous captures. This suggests we are between …
Grape Pest Survey- 4th Week of July
As we reach the end of July, more fields started to ripen for both muscadines and vinifera grapes, and …
Cucumber Downy Mildew in Western North Carolina (7/30/2019)
Cucumber Downy Mildew (CDM) has been confirmed on cucumber samples from our sentinel plot in Waynesville, NC (Haywood County) …
Greens Production Workshops
Join us for hands-on, on-farm production workshops for Western NC Growers These workshops are aimed at training growers considering production …
Scout for Tomato Late Blight in NC (July 30, 2019)
Conditions have been conducive for late blight on tomato to occur, especially in western North Carolina. Heavy morning dews and …
Applications for Farm School Are Now Being Accepted
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