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North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Headquarters

2 West Edenton Street
1020 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1020
Phone 919.733.7136
Fax 919.715.0155




Marketing Specialists in the Raleigh office provide marketing assistance to individual growers, packer/shippers, processors, commodity associations, and agribusinesses. Marketing services are available for crops ranging from corn to strawberries. Activities include developing marketing strategies, identifying potential buyers, organizing promotions with retailers, wholesalers, restaurants, and farmers markets, farm tours for produce buyers, planning marketing programs for commodity associations, training farmers in price risk management, and assistance to grain dealers, cotton gins and the tobacco industry.

E-Mail the designated marketing specialists for assistance with these commodities.


Nathan Holleman , Assistant Director, Horticulture and Field Crops

G.W. Stanley, Manager, Domestic Marketing

Kevin Hardison, Strawberries, Greenhouse Vegetables, Organics, Peaches

John Snipes, Eastern Christmas Trees, Fresh Grapes, Green Industry, Pine Needles

Nick Lassiter, Grains, Oil Seed, Cotton, Peanuts

Randy Maness, Retail Specialist

Tim Parrish, Foodservice Specialist


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