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Cover photo of 2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook

2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook

The 2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook can be accessed online at no cost. Click the link below to view a downloadable PDF. 2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook Print copies are…

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2025 Southeast Vegetable & Fruit Expo

All are invited to attend the 40th annual Southeast Vegetable & Fruit Expo, December 2-3, 2025 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton, Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Resort. The N.C. Vegetable Growers Association,…

North Carolina Sweetpotatoes Field Day — 9 October 2025, Clinton Research Station, Clinton NC

2025 NC Sweetpotato Field Day

This event has passed, but you can view the recordings on our NC State Extension YouTube channel!

watermelon growing on vine

Recording - Watermelon Production Meeting

N.C. Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with the N.C. Watermelon Association, hosted the 2025 virtual Watermelon Production Meeting on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025. The recording can be accessed…

Pumpkin with beetle, corn, tomato with hole, broccoli; text "MyIPM for Vegetables"

New Tool for Growers: MyIPM for Vegetables App

Commercial vegetable producers have a new tool to assist with integrated pest management (IPM) of diseases and insects in vegetables. MyIPM for Vegetables is the newest resource in the MyIPM app…

NC Cooperative Extension: Regional Sweetpotato Meetings — Feb 15 (Johnston) and Feb 22 (Wilson)

Regional Sweetpotato Production Meetings

N.C. Cooperative Extension will host two Regional Sweetpotato Production Meetings this winter. The Agenda will be the same at both meetings, so you can choose the date or location that's most…

Workers loading watermelons into a truck bed in a field during harvest

Recording of 2024 NC Watermelon Production Meeting

N.C. Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with the N.C. Watermelon Growers Association, hosted the 2024 virtual Watermelon Production Meeting on Tuesday, January 30th, 2024.The recording can be…

Tomato fruit

57th Annual Winter Vegetable Conference & Trade Show-February 19-20, 2025

This is the largest commercial vegetable grower event in the region with a high quality educational program put together by vegetable extension specialist/agents at NC State University. We hope that…

cover of new broccoli cooling bulletin

Cooling Methods for Broccoli

9/6/2022 - The Eastern Broccoli Project is a multi-state project funded by the USDA-SCRI program. Led by Dr. Thomas Björkman at Cornell University, the project began in 2010 and just ended in August…

People standing in a fiber hemp field listening to a speaker

2022 NC State Hemp Field Days Report

8/17/2022 - NC State University held two official field days in 2022 highlighting our hemp research. The first one was the 2022 Fiber Hemp Field Day held on July 19th at the Piedmont Research Station…