Meat processing is a booming industry in North Carolina. With that, there are jobs abound for graduates to take on, but do they have the relevant training? NC State's Currey Nobles is working with the Agricultural Institute instituting courses to help train the next wave of workers entering the industry.

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Thank you for listening to Farms, Food and You, produced by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. Over the past three years, we’ve enjoyed bringing you information and news about food and farming issues in North Carolina. This is our last episode, but you can hear previous episodes at go.ncsu.edu/farms. And we hope you’ll keep up with the latest from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences online at cals.ncsu.edu/news.

Considered a delicacy, oysters are wildly popular in culinary communities. But is farming them as exclusive as some might believe. This episode we sit down with Jane Harrison to discuss the North Carolina Oyster Trail, and learn about the burgeoning industry that is North Carolina oysters.

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In this episode of Farms, Food and You, we’ll look at what essentially equates to carbon recycling and the potential it holds for farmers, entrepreneurs and society in general. It’s a topic covered in the latest magazine of North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Our guest is Dr. Joe Sagues, the researcher featured in that article.

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