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RALEIGH – Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced the second round of awards from the North Carolina Agricultural Manufacturing and Processing Initiative. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Thom Tillis announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be awarding $24.9 million to North Carolina to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to provide high-speed internet. This network will benefit 2,674 people, 84 businesses, 117 farms, and four educational facilities in Bladen, Columbus, and Sampson Counties....

R & R Brewing, a microbrewery originating in Mount Olive, NC continues to make progress towards officially breaking ground on Sampson County’s first ever taproom and their second location which will be located in downtown Clinton at 104 Fayetteville Street in the historical Henry Vann Building. ...

“We built the Trades Center to be able to adapt to the ever growing needs of business and industry,” said Dr. Bill Starling, President of Sampson Community College, in a press release. “While many communities have advanced manufacturing as their largest employers, agriculture is our biggest industry. Our county has $1.35 billion in agriculture production. We work with a variety of agricultural businesses that need these trades to operate.”...

North Carolina is #1. CNBC scored all 50 states on 86 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. Each category is weighted based on how frequently states use them as a selling point in economic development marketing materials. ...