Extension
Investing In People, Not Just Production
Participants from Worthington Farms credit the Executive Farm Management Program with helping their business evolve. They spoke with Nursery Management Magazine about their experience in the program.
Gutierrez-Li on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act
An excerpt from a recent NBC News article in which Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist Alejandro Gutierrez-Li discusses the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
NCSFMRA Members Tour Shenandoah Valley Agriculture
A field report on this year's North Carolina Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers summer tour, written by Assistant Extension Professor Andrew Branan.
Can You Trim Your Neighbor’s Tree? NC Law About Trees, Damage & Property
Lawyer and Extension Assistant Professor Andrew Branan speaks with the News and Observer to offer his expert opinion on property laws in North Carolina.
3 Faculty Awarded AAEA Best Paper
Zheng Li, Roderick Rejesus and Xiaoyong Zheng won the award for their paper, “Nonparametric Estimation and Inference of Production Risk.”
From Robots to Customers: Exploring New Opportunities for Dairy Farmers
Assistant Professor Alejandro Gutierrez-Li won a $250,000 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant to study Automatic Milking Systems.
Eric Edwards Selected for AEPP Best Article Award
Eric Edwards was selected to receive the AEPP Best Article Award for “The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions across the Globe.”
Daniel Tregeagle Receives Outstanding Published Paper Award
Daniel Tregeagle received an Outstanding Published Paper Award for his work on “Balancing Bees and Pest Management: Projected Costs of Proposed Bee-protective Neonicotinoid Regulation in California.”
ARE Economist Joins the Fight to Curb the Effects of Invasive Nematode on SweetPotatoes
Daniel Tregeagle will conduct economic analysis to determine the costs of adopting new growing methods to stop the spread of the guava root-knot nematode.
New Fact Sheet Published on Wetlands Law
This publication provides an overview of the historical wetland trends in North Carolina, reviews the evolution and current status of wetland regulations and summarizes the potential impacts of climate change on wetlands in NC.