It's a cloudy, rainy and, most importantly, windy day in Chowan County in northeastern North Carolina. Dozens of wind turbines spin at full speed over empty fields of crops, making a rhythmic, ...

An oak tree over a century old overlooks 125 acres of Hughes family land on Pine Knot Farms. Landon Elliot UNC Media Hub It’s a September day on Pine Knot Farms in Hurdle Mills, north of Durham. A ...

Selling hundreds of his family's lush-green acres to a Texas developer is the right move for the area's economic future, longtime Iredell County cattle farmer David Stamey said Thursday. Dallas-based ...

Agriculture is North Carolina’s No. 1 industry, but North Carolina ranks second in the nation for most threatened farmland. That is why “saving family farms” is one of the three core tenets of Three ...

David Stamey, a longtime cattle farmer in Iredell County, is selling 340 acres of his family’s land to Compass Datacenters for a new development. The Dallas-based company has filed rezoning plans with ...

Seventy-five acres of farmland along Highway 601 just south of Mount Airy have been permanently protected from development ...

Plans for a 1,136-acre biodynamic farm and agritourism destination go in front of the Garfield County Planning Commission at 6 p.m. today, bringing a community debate over water plans and more to a ...

Across North Carolina, treated sewage sludge—known as biosolids—is spread on farmland as fertilizer. But growing concerns over PFAS contamination have farmers, utilities, and regulators grappling with ...