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Keep It Covered! (Your Silage Ground, I Mean)

Don't want to read the whole article? Here are 8 reasons to consider cover cropping your silage ground this year. Keeping ground covered year round can decrease weed pressure. If something you've…

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Watauga County 4-H Summer Fun - 2025

Registration Is Open Now! Join us for a summer full of fun, educational adventures! We are offering camps for ages 5-7 and 8+. Camps include Forestry Camp, Pizza Camp, CloverBud Camp, Junior master…

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Ag Disaster Crop Loss Program Applications Open

North Carolina just announced that the NC Agricultural Disaster Crop Loss Program application is now open. This is the state funding program for Helene to cover farmers who have uninsured crop losses…

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Market Garden Production Class Series

The Watauga office of North Carolina Cooperative Extension and Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (BRWIA) are collaborating to present a class series for farmers wanting to begin or transition to…

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High Country Live Stake Giveaway Events

Blue Ridge Resource Conservation & Development is again offering live stake giveaway events in the High Country. These live stake giveaways are a partnership between New River Conservancy, Blue Ridge…

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Submit Soil Samples Now to Avoid Peak-Season Fees

FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES: RALEIGH -- Peak-season soil testing fees are set to take effect December 1 through March 31, 2022, pending final approval by…

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Free Pasture Renovation, Erosion Control & Key Line Plowing Workshop

A free workshop on Pasture Renovation, Erosion Control, & Key Line Plowing will be offered Monday, July 18 from 3-5pm at Against the Grain Farm. Do your hillside pastures turn brown too soon during…