North Carolina’s Union County modernizing food and agribusiness with solid collaboration strategies


With its dynamic suburbs and modern business landscape, Union County might not be the place you’d expect to find North Carolina’s third-largest agricultural economy. But the county’s fertile soils support 957 farms and an eclectic array of agribusiness and consumer foods enterprises.

Agriculture, in fact, is Union County’s second-largest industry, employing just under 20 percent of its workforce, according to Andrew Baucom, Union County extension director. The county leads North Carolina…

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