The workers who harvest North Carolina’s sweet potatoes and tobacco are some of the lowest-paid and least protected workers in the state. They routinely face exposure to intense heat, long hours, back-breaking labor and dangerous pesticides and equipment. In general, farm work is among the most dangerous occupations in our state. And it [Continue Reading...]

While the modern landscape of North Carolina agriculture may not, at first glimpse, look very “modern,” many of our local growers are, in fact, now operating in a new global agribusiness paradigm. [Continue Reading...]