A self-assessed, state-wide check-off that supports agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at NC State University will be held Wednesday, Nov. 16 . . .
In other language, users of animal feed and fertilizer will get to vote on whether to continue a fifteen-cent-per-ton tax paid by manufacturers and passed on to consumers.
“Virtually every significant advancement in agriculture in the last 60 years has received Nickels funding at some point,” said [NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences] Dean Johnny C. Wynne. “Without Nickels, our college would not be able to serve the citizens of North Carolina as well as we do.”