Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every morning, when Jim Howie takes his cattle out to pasture, he’s following in family traditions that go back generations. His ...

Republican leaders want to put the amendments on the November ballot for North Carolina voters to approve or deny.

A local student was selected as one of 13 winners in the annual Farm to School Calendar Contest, sponsored by North Carolina Grange. Kevin Lucas Perez, a first-grader from Peterson Elementary School ...

The General Assembly of North Carolina has approved its annual Farm Act, a 28-page bill that would exempt farmers from paying compost sales tax among other measures. The Farm Act also contains a ...

NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing ...

Republicans in the state legislature on Monday began efforts to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the General Assembly's annual farm bill, with the Senate successfully voting to enact the ...

WAXHAW, N.C. — Every morning, when Jim Howie takes his cattle out to pasture, he’s following in family traditions that go back generations. His family’s owned this land just outside of downtown Waxhaw ...

Titled, “The Farmland Protection Act,” the bill would remove property tax abatements for new solar energy systems, raising the tax liability for such projects by 500%. It would also increase ...