The American Society for Horticultural Science offers journals, educational opportunities, specialty publications, and career development services to all Individual Members.

The Class Produce Group is a family-owned business in food distribution that strives to fill its customers’ needs while maintaining excellent relationships with all shippers, associates, and customers. Our flexibility to customize to our customer needs is one of the hallmarks of our reputation for customer service.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences "discovers, develops, teaches, and applies knowledge and technology that enable students, clientele, and citizens of North Carolina and others to improve the quality of their lives and to enhance the agricultural, economic, environmental, and social well being of the state and world and to create and extend new knowledge through scientific research and extension in agriculture and the life sciences." Our college recently developed a strategic plan, for more information about our mission and core purpose please visit the CALS Strategic Plan website.

Jackson Farming Company, founded in 1981, is a family-owned and operated business, located in the heart of Sampson County near Fayetteville, NC. We grow, pack, ship, and broker fresh fruits and vegetables year round.

The National Watermelon Promotion Board is the marketing arm of the watermelon industry, and as such, is an active partner in stimulating and promoting watermelon throughout the year.

Find out when produce is available in the year.

North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. is a private, non-profit, grassroots organization that has been actively promoting farm and rural issues since 1936 through governmental relations, marketing, field representation, agricultural education, member services and other programs.

North Carolina State University has had a breeding program on watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) for decades.

The objectives of the program are to expand our knowledge of watermelon genetics and breeding, educate graduate students interested in vegetable breeding, do research on problems affecting the watermelon industry, and develop improved cultivars and breeding lines for use in North Carolina and the U.S.

This guide includes listings of major NC growers, packers, and shippers to help you find top quality fruits, vegetables, herbs, greenhouse, and organic produce.

This directory is brought to you by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Marketing Division.

Serving the Produce & Tobacco Industries for nearly 50 Years.