North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are ready for business to ramp back up after a hard holiday season in 2024 following ...

“You travel across the state of North Carolina, and it’s occupying the best farmland in the state,” he said. “I think by experience now we see that this is an industry that does not need incentivizing ...

Tropical Storm Helene terrorized Western North Carolina’s farms in late September. Recovering is no easy task. And Helene was the not the first calamity that farmers across the state faced in 2024.

NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) -- Western North Carolina is home to one of the country's largest sources of Christmas trees in the country. It's why after Hurricane Helene, many are hoping to show their ...

As soon as the skies clear after a hurricane hits eastern North Carolina, Larry Baldwin climbs in the passenger seat of a single-engine plane, usually with his friend and pilot Rick Dove, and surveys ...

Invasive Scud Is Threatening the Great Lakes. Pollution Might Be Helping to Keep It Back. ‘Renewable’ No More: The Trump Administration Renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Factory Farms ...

The General Assembly of North Carolina has approved its annual Farm Act, a 28-page bill that would exempt farmers from paying compost sales tax among other measures. The Farm Act also contains a ...

Each year, some 15,000 H-2A visa holders come to North Carolina to work temporarily on farms and in greenhouses across the state. They harvest crops, drive heavy machinery and operate agricultural ...

Benevolence Farm’s expansion comes as more than one in four people in North Carolina leave state prisons homeless — a gap the state aims to close through new reentry housing efforts.

WAXHAW, N.C. — Every morning, when Jim Howie takes his cattle out to pasture, he’s following in family traditions that go back generations. His family’s owned this land just outside of downtown Waxhaw ...