Category: Cooperative Extension
N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension Responds to Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene cut a devastating swath across Western North Carolina and through the state’s $111 billion agricultural economy.
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N.C. A&T Extension Summer Interns Reflect on Program’s Impacts
Rachel Martin (second from left), sophomore at A&T who interned in Scotland County under the...
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Climate-Smart Field Day Draws Southeast Growers
John Kimes, cattle research specialist, coordinates an equipment demonstration, during the...
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“Bringing the Fun Back to Fitness” at N.C. A&T Wellness Training Day
Shewana McSwain, the Try Healthy SNAP-Ed coordinator with Cooperative Extension at N.C. A&T, joined forces with other campus and county faculty and staff, including Ryan O’Connor, Patrice Dollar, Katryn Eske, Ph.D., and Morgan Malone to lead an inspiring wellness training session during N.C. A&T’s Division of Student Affairs End-of-Year Retreat earlier this summer. The event was held at Barber Park Event Center in Greensboro. Shewana and Ryan’s segment, “Bringing the Fun Back to Fitness,” was a highlight of the event and featured an over-and-under ball transfer competition and a hula hoop pass through relay race. Both sparked some spirited discussion and fostered team building.
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Small Farms Field Day Highlights New Techniques
Small-scale farmers and researchers across North Carolina learned the essentials of pork and ginger production, plasticulture, and climate-smart practices during this year’s Small Farms Field Day.
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N.C. A&T-Led Heirs Property Team Wins State-Level Cooperative Extension Award
An N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension-led program designed to help landowners protect and preserve their generational land has earned a major award from the N.C. Association of Cooperative Extension Specialists.
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4-H ‘Game of Drones’ Brings Coding Battle Back to N.C. A&T
4-H students battled with codes and drones, on the ground and in the air, to see who would be called “Ruler of the Earth and Sky.”
The second annual Game of Drones, a collaboration between N.C. A&T Cooperative Extension’s 4-H STEM program and Fayetteville-based STEM learning organization STEMerald City, LLC, took place April 27 in Moore Gym.
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Extension Specialist Wins National Career Award
Biswanath Dari, Ph.D., is the recipient of an award from the American Society of Agronomy celebrating his early career and research achievements.
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It’s a Tie: Farmers from Warren, Cumberland Counties Share 2024 Small Farmer of the Year Award
Two North Carolina farmers were named Small Farmers of the Year this week as N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University’s Cooperative Extension division celebrated Small Farms Week, N.C. Extension’s annual tribute to small-scale growers.
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CAES Researcher Receives Grant to Study Medicinal Crops
Kathleen Liang, Ph.D., W.K. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, has received a $20,000 grant from a division of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the growth, use and marketability of medicinal crops.
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Soil Specialist Leading Farmers in Testing Climate-Smart Strategies
It’s not who you know, but what you know, the popular catchphrase goes. But for Biswanath Dari, Ph.D., Cooperative Extension natural resource specialist, soil scientist and researcher in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, it’s both who and what he knows.
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Warren, Cumberland County Farmers Named Finalists for N.C. Small Farmer of the Year Award
A fourth-generation family farm in Warren County in operation since 1865 and a small farm in Cumberland County run by a former U.S. Army officer turned beekeeper are the finalists for the 38th annual Small Farmer of the Year Award, N.C. A&T State University Cooperative Extension announced today.
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