NCFB Magazine hits the airwaves on RFD-TV in August.

The next installment of North Carolina Farm Bureau Magazine will cover everything from tobacco’s growing roots to barbecue’s never ending taste-war.

First up, burley and flue-cured tobacco have both traditionally been grown strictly in distinct geographic regions within North Carolina, but the line between the two types is rapidly dissolving.
NCFB Magazine visits with William Vernon, a burley grower in the Piedmont for that story.

Second, as our population becomes more and more removed from the farm, the challenge for schoolteachers is educating our children about where food really comes from. A newly developed North Carolina Ag in the Classroom tool is helping elementary school teachers across the country bring the farmer more into the classroom.

Third, with North Carolina State University at the heart of bio-fuels research and looking at a variety of crops as potential biofuels stock, many crops not widely grown in the state might have a new future in the farm fields of North Carolina.

And although the days of the lighthouse-keeper checking the whale oil supply and climbing the tower to clean its lenses have passedm, 2 million visitors to the North Carolina Outer Banks every season can get a sense of what it was like to live during that bygone age. NCFB Magazine visits three coastal lighthouses that still provide a beacon of safety for shipping along the treacherous Outer Banks.

Finally, the show takes a look at an East vs. West tale of several North Carolina barbecue chefs who all claim their region is the “Q-Capital.”

North Carolina Farm Bureau Magazine on RFD-TV

Scheduled Showings
(Subject to change)

Aug. 27: 6:30 p.m.
Aug. 28: 4:30 a.m.
Direct TV Satellite Service Channel 379.
DISH Network Satellite Service Channel 231.
Time-Warner Cable in the future, watch for updates.