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North Carolina has awarded $1.2 million in specialty crops grants, some of which targets organic production.
" North Carolina State University received five of the grants, some geared directly toward improving the states already thriving organic farming enterprise. The state is one of few in the Southeast with an ongoing organic crops research and outreach program.
"Chris Reberg-Horton, who heads the North Carolina State organic crops program, says these crops are growing in size and economic importance to North Carolina and the Carolina-Virginia region. ... " Delete the scoop?
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Dr. Wallace Thurman coauthors the first comprehensive North American survey of the economic forces which drive pollination services.
The study, titled "The Economics of Honeybee Pollination Markets," appears in the most recent issue of The American Journal of Agricultural Economics. The appears paper here (full text may require a subscription or payment): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aas031
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CALS researchers find that one of the most aggressive invasive ant species in the US, the Argentine ant, appears to have met its match in the Asian needle ant. Former NC State PhD student Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice & Dr. Jules Silverman, Entomology, published their findings in PLoS One:
http://scienceblog.com/59643/asian-needle-ants-displacing-other-aggressive-invaders/
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056281