October 12, 2020
The agronomy team is always seeking out ways to help the farmers in our counties. One way they are doing that is through on-farm trials. Thanks to a grant from the South Carolina Soybean Board, agronomy agents Heather Benjamin, Jonathan Croft, William Hardee, and Hannah Mikell have been able to work with growers to do […]
June 29, 2020
Since the 1800s, flue-cured tobacco has played a major role in the Pee Dee Region’s agriculture industry. William Hardee and other area agronomy agents have served tobacco growers through on-farm visits to greenhouses and fields, crop insurance disease verification and letters, county test plots, and coordinating the state tobacco production meeting. Through grower surveys conducted […]
April 27, 2020
Spring is one of the busiest times on a farm, and COVID-19 hasn’t changed many things for the Agronomy Team. They’ve continued to work directly with producers while maintaining social distancing protocols and while implementing additional safety precautions. They altered group meetings to one-on-one meetings and trainings or met with multiple producers at one time […]
