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Agriculture & Food: Commercial Horticulture, Nursery, & Turf Commercial horticulture -- fruit, vegetable and landscape plant production -- represents a fast-growing segment of North Carolina's economy. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps growers implement research-based production practices, investigate high-value alternative crops, develop sound business plans and explore new marketing options to ensure continued farm profitability, environmental stewardship and quality of life. __________________________________________________
Take a look at the small fruits damage assessment tool prepared by our former area specialized agent, Diane Ducharme __________________________________________________ WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA GREEN INDUSTRY NEWS BLOG! For live news pertaining to the Ornamental Green Industry in Western North Carolina. News & events are posted daily. You will also find a list of useful websites and you can comment on posts that are made. Check it out! http://wncgreennews.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ WNC VEGETABLE AND SMALL FRUIT NEWS BLOG! The WNC Vegetable and Small Fruit News blog serves all vegetable and small fruit producers in Western North Carolina through timely information on events, production issues, disease/insect problems, local weather, etc.
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