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Managing Heat Stress in Your Vegetable and Fruit Garden

Rod BainJul 30, 2025

Backyard veggie and fruit growers worried about recently extreme heat and your garden crops, perhaps you are seeing signs of…

Lantana: The sun-loving, pollinator-friendly powerhouse

Lantana: The sun-loving, pollinator-friendly powerhouse

WPTF StaffJul 30, 2025

By MIKE RALEY WPTF Weekend Gardener I have grown to love lantana. I never really had anything against it. It’s…

Some North Carolina Democratic lawmakers break from party to pass Republican priorities

Some North Carolina Democratic lawmakers break from party to pass Republican priorities

By MAKIYA SEMINERA and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican lawmakers on Tuesday overrode…

Record-breaking heat wave scorches Southeast US

Record-breaking heat wave scorches Southeast US

By RUSS BYNUM and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers…

Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger

Union Pacific and Norfolk seek 1st transcontinental railroad through a massive merger

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal…

SC Commissioner Weathers: SC Commissioner’s School for Agriculture

SC Commissioner Weathers: SC Commissioner’s School for Agriculture

Mike DavisJul 29, 2025

I understand you were up in Clemson last week for the South Carolina Commissioner’s School for Agriculture. Let’s hear about…

NC Commissioner Troxler: Tropical Spiderwort Confirmed in Crave County

NC Commissioner Troxler: Tropical Spiderwort Confirmed in Crave County

Mike DavisJul 29, 2025

Following a recent discovery of tropical spiderwort in Eastern North Carolina, farmers are being asked to be on the lookout…

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday July 29

Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday July 29

Brooks SchafferJul 29, 2025

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The Administration…

Rollins Announces $60.9 Million in Disaster Assistance for Farmers in Virginia

Rollins Announces $60.9 Million in Disaster Assistance for Farmers in Virginia

USDAJul 28, 2025

(Washington, D.C., July 28, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced additional U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)…