Lee County Center: Animal Agriculture

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Agriculture & Food: Animal Agriculture

Raising animals -- poultry, hogs, horses, beef and dairy cattle, fish and more -- has become the most valuable segment of North Carolina agriculture. Today, animal agriculture accounts for about 60 percent of the state's total farm cash receipts. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps growers use the latest research to improve profits and manage animal waste in environmentally sound ways.

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Let'em Graze!
Posted April 13th, 2009 in Agriculture & Food: Animal Agriculture

Throughout Lee County you can find numerous pasture fields that are home to beef cattle, horses and goats. Here in the Southeast, with our longer growing season and variety of forages, we could potentially graze our livestock year round. And while we see livestock out “grazing” in the pasture unfortunately we find we truly are not managing those pastures to their potential.As I’ve told many producers “we need to be grass farmers first, livestock ... MORE

Passing the farm to the next generation
Posted February 12th, 2008 in Agriculture & Food: Animal Agriculture

Livestock, particularly breeding livestock, are among the first things usually transferred from parents to children. If you hold breeding livestock more than 1 year (more than two years for horses, cattle, or poultry) and use it in your trade or business, the gain or loss from its sale qualifies for capital gains treatment. The same rule applies to livestock sales that apply to most other assets. The difference ... MORE