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NC Executive Farm Management Program Expanding

What began as an intensive, high-level management and leadership training program for farmers and farm managers with large tobacco and sweet potato farms in North Carolina is expanding throughout the Southeast to growers of tobacco or any kind of produce. The program is a collaboration of faculty from Eastern Carolina University’s College of Business, NC State’s Poole College of Management, the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) based in Poole College, the NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and NC State Extension. Michelle Grainger, managing director of CIMS, also is managing director of the farm management program.  Read the full story here.