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Ag/Business briefs for March 1, 2012
Flea market reopens FAIRMONT — Fairmont is reopening its flea market March 31 at 7 a.m. on the museum ground next to the post office. There is no charge for vendors, who must provide their own tables. No food can be sold. For information, call Mayor Charles Kemp at 910-628-9766, Ext. 15. Free seminar held at RCC LUMBERTON — A free seminar on securing loans for small businesses and entrepreneurs will be held at the Robeson Community ...
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Oct. 8 is the day for diaper derby, steaks
LUMBERTON — The Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair offers even the smallest of fair-goers the chance to take home a prize. The 35th annual Diaper Derby will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the fairgrounds. Toddlers between the ages of 6 months and 1 year who are not yet walking, can crawl their way to a chance at a first-place prize of $100. “I’ve been really surprised to see how many babies are in the Diaper Derby,” said Robeson Coun...
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Fair tradition returns Oct. 8
LUMBERTON — Aside from candy apples, cotton candy and other fair favorites, visitors to the 65th annual Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair will get to sample a Robeson County county tradition. At 5 p.m. on Oct. 8, the 17th annual National Chicken Bog Cook-Off will award one creative cook with $1,000 for their recipe. About 15 contestants compete each year, making their own rendition of chicken bog, which is a mixture of slow-cooked rice a...
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The Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair s new website launched last week. It features videos, a photo gallery, the fair schedule, ticket sales, and links to social media sites for the fair, which will be held Sept. 30 to Oct. 8.
County fair boasts updated website
Amanda Munger Staff report LUMBERTON — The Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair now has connections to the community even when the fairgrounds aren’t bustling with activity. The fair’s website, www.robesoncountyfair.com, has been revamped in anticipation of this year’s festivities, slated for Sept. 30 to Oct. 8. “We didn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, but we updated everything and made it more user-friendly,” said Coble Wils...
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Members, including Rhonda Faircloth, left, Ann Underwood, Rogena Deese, Joyce Peay, Mack Johnson, Robert Wilkes, Cathy Graham, and Mark S. Moses, pause in front of the skeletal frame of a sperm whale at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Council gets lesson on N.C. State resources
RALEIGH — Several members of the Robeson County Advisory Council recently got a personal tour of the North Carolina State University campus. Rogena Deese, Rhonda Faircloth, Mack Johnson, Mark S. Moses, Joyce Peay, Ann Underwood, and Robert Wilkes, who were accompanied by County Extension Director Cathy Graham, began their tour at the North Carolina Solar House. The house, which is powered by solar panels, got the group talking about alter...
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Great grower
Jaylon Bell, a third-grader at West Lumberton Elementary, shows off the 24-pound cabbage he grew as part of a school project. His was the largest cabbage grown at the school.
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Monster trucks on agricultural fair schedule
LUMBERTON — This year’s Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair will feature something new and bigger than ever — monster trucks. The addition of a monster truck show is one of the highlights of the 2011 schedule, which was recently released by fair organizers. This year’s fair will be put on by Wade Shows, the company in charge of the North Carolina State Fair. “That is a real big deal and we’re pretty proud of that,” said Allen Faircloth, th...
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Mac Malloy
Malloy named county field crop agent
LUMBERTON — Mac Malloy, whose family has farmed for generations in Lumber Bridge, has recently been hired as the field crop agent for the Robeson County Agricultural Extension Service. Malloy, 30, graduated from North Carolina State University in 2003 with degrees in agronomy and agricultural business management. He has been the manager of Proctor Brothers Nursery in Parkton for seven years. Although this is his first job with the extensi...
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FFA teamwork
The Lumberton FFA recently participated in workshops about public speaking, teamwork and personal evolution with North Carolina State Officers and National Officers. Participants were Jason Davis, State FFA Executive Director, left; Alycia McLamb, State Officer; Megan Gause; Larry Gossen, National FFA Executive; Zack White; Elizabeth Ronson; Marissa Taylor; Jamie Boudreaux, State Officer; Thomas Barnes; Justin McIntyre, State Officer; Daniel ...
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Ag briefs for March 17
LUMBERTON — A seminar titled GAP Training for Tier 1 that focuses on food safety in the field will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 26 at the O.P. Owens Agriculture Center. GAP stands for good agricultural practices. The seminar will include information that will help people who grow produce get it to the market in good shape, and will focus on areas such as safety, packing, sanitation, hygiene and water quality. For information, or...
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Agriculture Briefs for Jan. 13
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will hold a one-day workshop on Jan. 25 about food safety and recalls. The workshop, called Protecting your Business, Preventing a Recall, will be held at the Gov. James Martin Building at the state fairgrounds. It is designed for meat producers and processors, value-added food producers and mid-sized food processing/packaging businesses. They will be given the optio...
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Agriculture News for Jan. 6
LUMBERTON — Computer classes will be offered for small and limited-resource farmers at Robeson Community College starting on Jan. 18. The sessions, which last five weeks, will be on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Class size is limited to 18 people. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The classes start with the basics of operating a computer and progress to providing fundamental instruction on using a comput...
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Towering Collards
Robert Goins, of Fairmont, stands beside his 7-foot-tall collard greens he grew at his farm.
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Talk of forestry
For the past several weeks, forestry professionals and Cooperative Extension agents from Robeson, Cumberland, Bladen and Sampson counties have been planning an educational meeting for forest owners from these counties. This meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at the Cooperative Extension Center in Lumberton on N.C. 72 west. If you own a farm, you most likely have timber growing on it. If so, and your goal is to make money from your farm, you n...
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Libby Burney, volunteer leader of the St. Pauls 4-H Pony Club, instructs a 4-H member in how to prepare a skeleton of a horse for their educational booth at the county fair.| Contributed photo
Plenty of time to get to the fair
Today is the big day. Today is opening day for the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair. If you are reading this newspaper while it is hot off the press, you might still have time to get to the Robeson County Fairgrounds for the 5 p.m. opening ceremonies. If you have finished dinner and are reading it while reared back in your recliner, you missed the grand opening, but you still have nine more days to visit the fair. Your county fair is the o...
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