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Bostian, C. H. (Carey Hoyt), 1907-2000
Size: 3 linear feet (6 archival boxes) Collection ID: MC 00076
The Carey Hoyt Bostian papers and photographs contains correspondence, news clippings, and photographs relating to Bostian's tenure at North Carolina State University as Director of Instruction at the School of Agriculture and as Chancellor of the University. Also included are Bostian's speeches and correspondence relating to his ...
MoreThe Carey Hoyt Bostian papers and photographs contains correspondence, news clippings, and photographs relating to Bostian's tenure at North Carolina State University as Director of Instruction at the School of Agriculture and as Chancellor of the University. Also included are Bostian's speeches and correspondence relating to his chancellorship. Carey Hoyt Bostian served as a faculty member at North Carolina State College from 1930 to 1973. Bostian joined the faculty at North Carolina State College in 1930 as an assistant professor in zoology. He became an associate professor in 1936, and a full professor in 1946. Also in 1946, Bostian was appointed assistant director of instruction in the State College School of Agriculture. In 1948, he became the associate dean of the School of Agriculture, and became director of instruction in 1950. During this year, he also became a professor in the genetics department. His title changed to director of instruction, School of Agriculture, in 1952. On September 1, 1953, Bostian became the seventh chancellor of North Carolina State College, and was formally installed on February 22, 1954. In 1959, Bostian resigned as chancellor in order to return to teaching. He helped establish the Faculty Senate, and served as its chairman from 1962 to 1963. Bostian continued to teach genetics at North Carolina State until his retirement in 1973.
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Sloan, Frederick Siler
Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 archival box) Collection ID: MC 00077
The Frederick Siler Sloan Papers consist of course outlines and notes on Agricultural Extension classes at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) during Sloan's tenure as senior staff member of that department, 1950-1962. Frederick Siler Sloan (1907-1983) received his B.A. in Horticulture from North ...
MoreThe Frederick Siler Sloan Papers consist of course outlines and notes on Agricultural Extension classes at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) during Sloan's tenure as senior staff member of that department, 1950-1962. Frederick Siler Sloan (1907-1983) received his B.A. in Horticulture from North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) in 1928. He served as an agricultural official and professor at North Carolina State's Agricultural Extension Service from 1928 to 1969. He also served as North Carolina State College contact officer for foreign visitors. In this capacity he helped arrange programs for about 4,000 students and visitors from 135 countries.
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Schaub, I. O. (Ira Obed), 1880-1971
Size: 5.05 linear feet (5 legal boxes, 1 album box, 1 flat folder, 1 flat box) Collection ID: MC 00021
The Ira Obed Schaub Papers contain correspondence, news articles, writings, publications, awards, and certificates concerning Schaub's professional life, from his career in 4-H work to his work at North Carolina State's cooperative extension program and as dean of the North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life ...
MoreThe Ira Obed Schaub Papers contain correspondence, news articles, writings, publications, awards, and certificates concerning Schaub's professional life, from his career in 4-H work to his work at North Carolina State's cooperative extension program and as dean of the North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The Schaub Papers also includes information about the personal life of Ira Obed Schaub, including his community involvement, travel, and education. A small number of documents concerning Maud Kennedy Schaub, the wife of Ira Obed Schaub, and some materials regarding the Schaub and Kennedy families, are also part of the collection. The collection dates from 1855 to 1974.
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Parker, John H. (John Hinton)
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 half box) Collection ID: MC 00491
This collection contains coursework of John H. (Hinton) Parker while he was a student at North Carolina State College (later university) in the early 1940s. Includes are exercise and workbooks, mostly for agricultural economics courses. Of note is an eleven page report Parker wrote after a farm management tour in northeastern North ...
MoreThis collection contains coursework of John H. (Hinton) Parker while he was a student at North Carolina State College (later university) in the early 1940s. Includes are exercise and workbooks, mostly for agricultural economics courses. Of note is an eleven page report Parker wrote after a farm management tour in northeastern North Carolina in May 1941, in which he briefly described farms visited in Nash, Edgecomb, Greene, Beaufort, Washington, Tyrrell, and Martin counties. The tour included Farm Security Administration settlements. John Hinton Parker was a student at North Carolina State College (later NC State University) in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He received a B.S. in Agricultural Education in 1942. He was later owner of the Parker Seed Company of Dunn, North Carolina.
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Size: 4.5 linear feet (7 archival boxes) Collection ID: UA 102.091
North Carolina 4-H Development Fund Records contain annual reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, and budget memos related to the North Carolina 4-H development Fund. It also includes an electronic file of Larry and Joyce Bass 4-H Horticultural Awards Endowment Brochure. The NC 4-H Development Fund was ...
MoreNorth Carolina 4-H Development Fund Records contain annual reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, and budget memos related to the North Carolina 4-H development Fund. It also includes an electronic file of Larry and Joyce Bass 4-H Horticultural Awards Endowment Brochure. The NC 4-H Development Fund was created to acquire funds that support 4-H Youth Development Programs in North Carolina and increase its effectiveness and efficiency. It acquires funds and gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations. 4-H, in turn, is a community of some 261,000 young people across America. In these programs, kids and teens are engaged in hands-on projects related to agriculture, health, science, and civic education while receiving guidance from adult mentors. Participants learn public speaking, decision-making, teamwork, communication, and other important skills. Not only do they develop new skills, they also learn how to become proactive leaders. Overall, nearly six million kids and teens have participated in 4-H programs.
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Size: 9.75 linear feet (16 archival storage boxes, 1 archival carton, 1 halfbox) Collection ID: UA 101.005
These records contain reports, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes regarding administrative and research activities of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service; material on the phytotron operations at North Carolina State University and Duke University; a significant amount of correspondence concerning the Mountain ...
MoreThese records contain reports, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes regarding administrative and research activities of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service; material on the phytotron operations at North Carolina State University and Duke University; a significant amount of correspondence concerning the Mountain Horticulture Crop Research Station in Fletcher, North Carolina; and nine boxes of grant files, 1957-1968, which contain correspondence, reports, financial records, applications, and proposals, including National Science Foundation grants 1957-1967 and National Institutes of Health grants 1957-1966. The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station was created in 1877, and transferred from the state to North Carolina State University in 1889. The Station was jointly run by the two groups and became a source of contention between the State Department of Agriculture and the University through the early part of the twentieth century. In 1979 the title "Agricultural Experiment Station" was changed to "Agricultural Research Service."
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North Carolina Agricultural Research Service
Size: 127 linear feet (61 cartons, 59 archival boxes, 1 legal box, 2 oversize flat boxes, 1 archival half box, 1 oversize box, 2 flat folders,); 2 websites Collection ID: UA 101.001
The records of the Office of the Associate Dean and Director of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service contain reports, correspondence, programs, publications, speeches, minutes, financial information, and committees relating to agricultural research and experiment stations. Also included are materials on the United States ...
MoreThe records of the Office of the Associate Dean and Director of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service contain reports, correspondence, programs, publications, speeches, minutes, financial information, and committees relating to agricultural research and experiment stations. Also included are materials on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Fiftieth Anniversary of the research stations, the Tennessee Valley Authority, agricultural products, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, individual college departments and their role in experiment station research, and the National Pickle Packers Association. Records include a letter book of the director. Materials range in date from 1878 to present. The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station was created in 1877, and transferred from the State of North Carolina to the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later, North Carolina State University) in 1889. The Station was jointly run by the two groups, and became a source of contention between the State Department of Agriculture and the University through the early part of the twentieth century. In 1979, the Agricultural Experiment Station was renamed the Agricultural Research Service.
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North Carolina Association of Extension 4-H Agents
Size: 6.25 linear feet (9 archival boxes, 1 archival half box, 4 albums) Collection ID: UA 102.054
These records document the operation of the North Carolina Association of Extension 4-H Agents on a yearly basis from 1971 to 1995. These papers include lists of officers, membership rolls, minutes, newsletters, committee reports, programs, correspondence, photographs, 35mm slides, audio and video cassettes. There is also extensive ...
MoreThese records document the operation of the North Carolina Association of Extension 4-H Agents on a yearly basis from 1971 to 1995. These papers include lists of officers, membership rolls, minutes, newsletters, committee reports, programs, correspondence, photographs, 35mm slides, audio and video cassettes. There is also extensive information on the 47th National Conference of 4-H Agents held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1993. The North Carolina Association of Extension 4-H Agents was formed in 1969 for the purpose of promoting the Cooperative Extension Service's 4-H Youth Development Program in North Carolina in conjunction with the National 4-H Association's guidelines.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Secretaries' Association, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association
Size: 19.55 linear feet (12 cartons, 2 half boxes, 1 archival box, 1 flat box); 4 megabytes; 33 files Collection ID: UA 102.055
This collection includes scrapbooks, meeting minutes, correspondence, and binders of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association (formerly the North Carolina Extension Service Secretaries' Association.) Organized in 1973, the Association's purpose is to establish and maintain a structure through ...
MoreThis collection includes scrapbooks, meeting minutes, correspondence, and binders of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association (formerly the North Carolina Extension Service Secretaries' Association.) Organized in 1973, the Association's purpose is to establish and maintain a structure through which members may be united in a professional development and improvement effort for the benefit of themselves and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. In 1979, the Association changed its name to the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Extension Secretaries. In 1991, it became the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Secretaries Association (NCCESA) and in 2012, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association (NCCEAPA).
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size: 33.5 linear feet (55 archival boxes, 4 cartons); 18 megabytes Collection ID: UA 102.002
These records contain annual reports from Cooperative Extension Service programs throughout their history in North Carolina. Also included are plans of work and annual statements of objectives and goals for the coming year for many of the same programs. Although extension and demonstration work in North Carolina had been active since ...
MoreThese records contain annual reports from Cooperative Extension Service programs throughout their history in North Carolina. Also included are plans of work and annual statements of objectives and goals for the coming year for many of the same programs. Although extension and demonstration work in North Carolina had been active since the early years of the twentieth century, the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service was only officially created in 1914 as a result of the Smith-Lever Act. In 1991 the name was changed to the current one, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size: 11.25 linear feet (4 archival boxes, 6 cartons, 1 archival half box) Collection ID: UA 102.004
The records, 1956-2008, of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service committees include administrative records pertaining to the Extension Tomorrow Team committee and other committees' materials (including from the State Advisory Council) from the Associate Dean and Director's Office of the service. Records include committee ...
MoreThe records, 1956-2008, of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service committees include administrative records pertaining to the Extension Tomorrow Team committee and other committees' materials (including from the State Advisory Council) from the Associate Dean and Director's Office of the service. Records include committee meeting minutes, meeting schedules, meeting expense reports and budgets, planning reports, presentations, e-mails, handwritten notes, publications, and other items. Although extension activities began in the late nineteenth century with the formation of the North Carolina State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service was officially formed in 1914 with the passage of the Smith-Lever Act. Extension services provide education and programming in numerous subjects, among them agriculture, forestry, environmental sustainability, youth and family development, and community viability.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size: 62.6 linear feet (99 archival storage boxes, 8 cartons, 2 legal-size boxes, 2 flat folders); 262 megabytes; 13 files; 1 website Collection ID: UA 102.200
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service publications contain a wide variety of published material relating to the activities, aims, functions, and programs of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Through the years, the Service's mission has encompassed agricultural education, agricultural extension work, home ...
MoreThe North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service publications contain a wide variety of published material relating to the activities, aims, functions, and programs of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Through the years, the Service's mission has encompassed agricultural education, agricultural extension work, home demonstration work, and rural extension. In 1909, the Service played a vital role in establishing boys' clubs, which later became 4-H clubs. Through the Home Demonstration Department (later Department of Family and Consumer Sciences), girls' clubs were soon added to the programs available for young people. The records represent both single and serialized items. Materials range in date from 1916 to 2022, and include archived web cotent. Although extension and demonstration work in North Carolina had been active since the early years of the twentieth century, the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service was only officially created in 1914 as a result of the Smith-Lever Act. In 1991 the name was changed to the current one, the Cooperative Extension Service.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size: 41 linear feet (1 card box, 26 cartons, 34 oversize reel boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 4 reels, 1 vinyl record box,); 3.4 gigabytes; 21 files Collection ID: UA 102.400
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service gives residents access to the resources and expertise of NC State University and NC A&T State University. Through educational programs, publications, and events, Cooperative Extension field faculty deliver unbiased, research-based information to North Carolina citizens. Established ...
MoreThe North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service gives residents access to the resources and expertise of NC State University and NC A&T State University. Through educational programs, publications, and events, Cooperative Extension field faculty deliver unbiased, research-based information to North Carolina citizens. Established in 1914, the Extension Service is a partnership of county, state and federal governments. The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Audiovisual Collection contains audiovisual materials produced in conjuction with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. The collection includes the "Aspect" public-access program, later renamed "Now," and films pertaining to the 4-H program. The "Aspect" and "Now" programs feature interviews, demonstrations and examinations of aspects of agriculture, folk traditions and rural life found in North Carolina. "Aspect" is presented mainly by host Hal Reynolds. The "Now" program is presentd primarily by Ruth Sheehan. There are also Administrative Briefings covering the years 1980 to 2001. The collection also contains materials from Extension Forestry,Agricultural Extension, The North Carolina State University radio program "Agri-News' and various other sources. The collection consists primarily of 16 mm film, VHS and Beta videotapes, DVDs, and 1/4 inch magnetic tape sound recordings. Materials range in date from 1946 - 2001 with several possibly older undated recordings.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size: 79.85 linear feet (57 boxes, 1 card box, 2 flat boxes, 1 flat folder, 1 legal box, 27 slide boxes, 27 cartons); 485 megabytes; 29 files Collection ID: UA 102.050
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records contain administrative records of the County Operations office, as well as records from individual county offices. The county offices represented are Alamance, Dare, Hertford, McDowell, Pamlico, Rutherford, and Person. The Alamance County Records contain ...
MoreThe North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records contain administrative records of the County Operations office, as well as records from individual county offices. The county offices represented are Alamance, Dare, Hertford, McDowell, Pamlico, Rutherford, and Person. The Alamance County Records contain photographs, publications, and yearbooks from the North Carolina Home Demonstration Club and the Alamance Extension Homemakers Club. The Dare County records contain photos, yearbooks, meeting minutes, publications, files, newsletters, slides, and negatives. The amjority of the materials are related to summer camps and the extension homemakers association. The Pamlico County records comprises reports filed by county extension agents, including a record of county agent work from 1922-1935. The McDowell County records contain scrapbooks, photographs, publications, slides, and meeting minutes. The Hertford County records include a history of extension work in the county, reports, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks. The Rutherford County records include photographs of extension events, slides, and a narrative history. The Person County records contain slides featuring presentations and photographs. The materials in the Other Counties series represent all one hundred counties in North Carolina, and include farm census summaries, histories of extension work, agents lists, and publications. In November of 1907 North Carolina appointed its first white county agent, James A. Butler, for the purpose of educating farmers on productive farming techniques. The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, located at A & M College, hired Neil Alexander Bailey as its first African American agricultural extension agent on November 1, 1910. As a result of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, land-grant universities were authorized to begin cooperative extension work with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Smith-Lever Act made provisions for the use of County Extension agents to educate farmers, provide help in farming, and help with 4-H Clubs and Home Demonstration agents to provide help in running a farm household and provide health information. County and Home Demonstration agents work in cooperation with North Carolina State University and North Carolina A and T.
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North Carolina State University. Department of 4-H Youth Development
Size: 74.6 linear feet (35 cartons, 24 oversize boxes, 1 legal box, 5 flat folders, 1 oversize flat box,); 629.115 megabytes; 1 website Collection ID: UA 102.010
These records detail the programs and activities of the 4-H Youth Development program in North Carolina from 1912 to 2012. The files contain correspondence and memoranda, programs and brochures, reports, member lists, financial information, clippings, news releases, photographs, and writings and speeches. The records have been ...
MoreThese records detail the programs and activities of the 4-H Youth Development program in North Carolina from 1912 to 2012. The files contain correspondence and memoranda, programs and brochures, reports, member lists, financial information, clippings, news releases, photographs, and writings and speeches. The records have been arranged to provide easily accessible information relating to 4-H camps, county club organizations, the 4-H Honor Club, and the state and national 4-H meetings. In 1909, North Carolina State College signed a memorandum of agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture to cooperatively develop Farmers' Boys' Clubs, or Corn Clubs. The first such club was formed in 1909, and the first for girls in 1911. In 1926, these now-extensive clubs were merged under a single banner, to become the state 4-H program. By the 1950s, North Carolina 4-H was one of the largest such programs in the nation.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Department of Agricultural and Extension Education
Size: 6.5 linear feet (4 cartons, 1 archival box) Collection ID: UA 102.011
The records of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Serivce, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education contain publications, teaching and program materials, grants, and project files reflecting the extension work of the department. The Department of Agricultural and Extension Education works to develop, support, and lead ...
MoreThe records of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Serivce, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education contain publications, teaching and program materials, grants, and project files reflecting the extension work of the department. The Department of Agricultural and Extension Education works to develop, support, and lead professionals in agricultural and extension education. The department provides academic degree programs, support for statewide extension activities, and supports the efforts of over 380 agricultural education teachers at high schools and middle schools throughout North Carolina. In 2016, the Department of Youth, Family and Community Sciences merged with the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education to become the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Size: 14.5 linear feet (27 archival storage boxes, 2 flat boxes); 1 websites Collection ID: UA 102.018
The North Carolina State University Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records contain reports, questionnaires, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, press releases, bound volumes, manuscripts, awards, tributes, newsletters, minutes, pamphlets, and labels. A large percentage of the records come from the office of ...
MoreThe North Carolina State University Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records contain reports, questionnaires, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, press releases, bound volumes, manuscripts, awards, tributes, newsletters, minutes, pamphlets, and labels. A large percentage of the records come from the office of the director. The records pertain to the activities of the Home Demonstration and Home Economics departments, which are currently known as the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, part of the Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The records date from 1903, prior to the organization's inception, through 2010s, although the bulk of the files are from 1930 - 1970.
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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (U.S.)
Size: 22.25 linear feet (10 archival boxes, 3 legal boxes, 10 cartons) Collection ID: UA 102.051
The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Records contains county by county records, unit reports, and reviews. Also included are general documents relating to EFNEP which include interview scripts, blank forms, data tools, interview documents, conference notebooks, ...
MoreThe North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Records contains county by county records, unit reports, and reviews. Also included are general documents relating to EFNEP which include interview scripts, blank forms, data tools, interview documents, conference notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, videotapes, CDs, floppy disks, and publications. Materials range from 1969 to 2018. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), established in 1969, is a Federal Extension and Community outreach program that has been operating through the 1862-1890 land-grant universities across the country. Employing a community-based approach, EFNEP has been able to tackle issues such as economic insecurity, obesity, health and hygiene, and food insecurity around the country for low-income families and children.(http://nifa.usda.gov/efnep , accessed April 2019) In North Carolina, EFNEP is administered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University (https://www.ncfamilieseatingbetter.org/EFNEP/partners-about.php, accessed April 2019). The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) at NC State University was established by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in the 1970s at a time that saw many economic difficulties for rural communities.
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Size: 0.32 linear feet; 1 website Collection ID: UA 102.003
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Extension Council Records contain Extention Council minutes and supporting documents. Also included is North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service State Advisory Council's official website. The State Advisory Council, through strong advocacy, communication efforts, committed Advisory ...
MoreNorth Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Extension Council Records contain Extention Council minutes and supporting documents. Also included is North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service State Advisory Council's official website. The State Advisory Council, through strong advocacy, communication efforts, committed Advisory leadership and engaged citizens, helps to ensure that every community in the state participates in and claims ownership in NC State Extension programs.
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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, N.C. MarketReady
Size: 8 gigabytes; 0.25 linear feet (1 archival halfbox) Collection ID: UA 102.040
This subgroup consists of materials related to the activities of N.C. MarketReady, formerly known as the Program for Value Added and Alternative Agriculture, part of the Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The records date from 2008 to 2012 and consist of media as well as educational and ...
MoreThis subgroup consists of materials related to the activities of N.C. MarketReady, formerly known as the Program for Value Added and Alternative Agriculture, part of the Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The records date from 2008 to 2012 and consist of media as well as educational and outreach videos and documents. Included are videos of the Produce Lady, Brenda Sutton, as well as reports and flyers. The North Carolina State University N.C. MarketReady program was started by Dr. Blake Brown in 2006 to assist the transition of tobacco-farm families to other profitable enterprises. Their aim is to build partnerships and educational resources to help North Carolina agriculture be more profitable. They develop and deliver educational programs and information resources intended to help farmers be successful. The program officially changed its name from Program for Value Added and Alternative Agriculture to N.C. MarketReady in October 2009.
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