If you love fresh vegetables straight from the garden but don’t have time to plant crops each year, consider starting an asparagus patch. Asparagus is a perennial plant that will continue to produce MORE »
KUDZU BUGS (Megacopta cribraria) are globular stinkbugs first found in Georgia in 2009 and have since spread to surrounding states. They feed on the sap of legumes (bean plants) by using sucking mouth MORE »
The 2014 Beaufort/Washington Counties Show and Sale is right around the corner! Livestock Show Dates to Remember: Steer Applications Due MORE »
This Holiday Season Support Local 4-H Enjoy a Fresh Fraser Fir Wreath from the Mountains of North Carolina! HOLIDAY WREATH SALE Beaufort County 4-H is pleased to offer this 26-inch fragrant wreath to MORE »
Are you seeing webs appearing at the ends of the branches of trees and shrubs in your yard right now? They are likely being made by the fall webworm. This caterpillar grows to MORE »
Click here for a printable version of the 2013 Blackland Farm Managers Tour Corn Hybrid Trial Results located in Terra Ceia, NC. Hybrid Yield, Bushels/Acre Pioneer 1456 HR 174.01 Pioneer 1319 HR 174.35 NK N68B-3111 MORE »
From Steve Koenning, NCSU Extension Plant Pathologist, and Jim Dunphy, NCSU Extension Soybean Specialist (October 8, 2013): Resistance of the frogeye leaf spot fungus (Cercospora sojina) on soybean to strobilurin type fungicides has MORE »
Photo/Caption: Beaufort Co. young farmer, Archie Griffin of Washington, (third from left) is shown holding his graduation plaque from the NC State Tobacco Short Course. With him (shown left to right) are: Dr. MORE »
MAKING A CHANGE…….Beaufort County will be camping at the Eastern 4-H Center this year. Make the switch with us and be closer to home. We have a few seats on our bus and MORE »
This Holiday Season Support Local 4-H Enjoy a Fresh Fraser Fir Wreath from the Mountains of North Carolina! Beaufort County 4-H is pleased to offer this 26-inch fragrant wreath to you in time MORE »
The State 4-H Council Conference is right around the corner! The conference will be held Saturday, November 3- Sunday, November 4, 2012 at the McKimmon Center on North Carolina State University’s Campus. Youth MORE »
What are we doing? 4-H’ers from across the county will be coming together to camp for the night. We will enjoy hotdogs, smores, campfire time, songs and games. We will be camping over-night MORE »
A 4-H’er from Beaufort County attended the third annual North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) Youth Summit, which was held in Raleigh, North Carolina August 17-18, 2012. North Carolina 4-H and the MORE »
Are you preparing turkey over the holidays? Twenty seven percent of all turkey eaten is consumed during the MORE »
Take the challenge. Let's spend 10% of our food dollars on foods from local MORE »
If you are interested in putting food safety to work in your operation, click here for registration information for Beaufort County's next Serv Safe class MORE »
Don't forget to get those ECA scholarship applications and CVU reports in the MORE »
Many of us don't know what to do with shrimp when we buy too many to prepare for a MORE »
Reading food labels can often be confusing when you are unfamiliar with the terminology. Here are a few definitions to cut down on your food label reading MORE »
A few simple changes can help consumers reduce their water bills, and in turn, save them MORE »
