From automated bioacoustic monitoring of pollinators to investigating bacteria found in the honeybee gut, NC State’s BeeMORE ...
Through the CALS Rural Works! Internship Program, animal science major Lauren Schulte-Hock got firsthand experience in both business operations and animal care at Sunset Ridge Bison Ranch in Roxboro, ...
Pablo Ortiz Paciello's engineered system works to capture carbon from a compost pile. Tucked away off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh, North Carolina, sits NC State University’s Compost Facility and ...
The latest statewide report on the economic impact of agriculture in North Carolina found that the food, fiber and forestry sector employed 20% of North Carolinians and generated $117 billion in ...
On a sweltering July day in the mid-1960s, a teenage Howard Williams “sweated it out” in Reynolds Coliseum with his fellow 4-H and FFA members at their annual conventions. To a farm kid from Iredell ...
Extension Agricultural Agent Andrea Gibbs inspects flood monitoring equipment at Middle Creek Farms. Farm owner Dawson Pugh of Hyde County is to her right. A new web-based app is in the works that ...
More than 75% of all flowering plants depend on pollinators for effective pollination, and one out of every three bites of food that humans consume is made possible by these insects. The process of ...
John Dole, professor of horticulture at NC State University, at the American Horticultural Society gala in Alexandria, Virginia. John Dole, a professor of horticultural science at NC State University, ...
As reports of cyclospora infections continue to make headlines across North Carolina and other parts of the country, many people are wondering what the outbreak means for them and how they can protect ...
Grace Douglas, the lead scientist for NASA’s Advanced Food Technology research, explores how to provide palatable, nutritious meals for astronauts.
New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species – particularly those that make subterranean nests. However, periods of extreme heat appear to offset those ...
Summer Lanier took her first trip down three escalators into a massive trade show for the poultry industry more than 20 years ago as an NC State University student. Her eyes widened at the exhibit ...