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Newspaper
Sun Journal
Location
New Bern, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1994
Page
15
A Tennessee tobacco grower rally highlights a lackluster selling season as the McLamb family farm near Dunn faces continued challenges. Nancy Stewart demonstrates a traditional learning method tracing the history of flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina while Kyle Stewart observes.
In Harnett County North Carolina a voluntary memorandum of understanding guides siting of swine confinement and waste treatment facilities. It requires at least 1000 feet from occupied homes and 500 feet for poultry with exceptions by consent. Fifteen companies signed and local officials support it as a good neighbor policy amid growth.
The North Carolina Peanut Growers Association will hold its annual meeting September 8 at the Peanut Belt Research Station near Lewiston Woodville. U.S. Rep. Charlie Rose will speak, joined by Donald White association president Betsy H Owens and Dr. Gene Sullivan. A lunch, field tour with four research stops, and a peanut field day sponsored by the NC Department of Agriculture NC State University and the NC Peanut Growers Association are planned.
In Hickory the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Division trade show display earned the top prize at the Merchants Distributors grocery show for the third year in a row. The 1994 booth spotlighted NC produce especially apples and watermelons and was staffed by the NC Apple Growers Association NC Watermelon Growers Association and the NC Department of Agriculture. The exhibit carried the slogan Roundup of Values with a western themed presentation.
Market report shows hogs steady to $1 lower with varied live and yield prices across Spivey’s Corner Clinton Fayetteville and other towns. Cattle and calves list slaughter cows bulls feeders and baby calves with wide price ranges. state feeder pig sales at Mount Olive. Greensboro and Durham grain prices for corn soybeans and wheat. cotton spot price and broiler fryer outlook with weekly slaughter estimates.
Eastern Belt tobacco markets held firm Wednesday with grade averages changing only 1 to 2 dollars per hundred and gains and losses limited. New crop prices ranged from 129 to 130 dollars per hundred pounds. Leaf tobacco accounted for about 40 percent of the sale with lugs and primings at 28 percent each.
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