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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">NEWS RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">For Immediate Release Date: 11/12/2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Contact: Public Information Office Phone: (919) 560-0000/Fax: (919) 560-0020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Soil Sample Service Ends for Season on November 22, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Durham, N.C. – </span></b><a name="_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Durham County Cooperative
Extension will temporarily stop accepting soil samples for analysis of pH and nutrient levels on Monday, November 22, 2021. The agency will resume collection on April 1, 2022.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Durham County Cooperative Extension offers free soil sampling materials and instructions to community
members through their self-service soil sample box at the Extension’s location at 721 Foster St., in downtown Durham all year long. Between April and November, the office also delivers soil samples to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services Agronomic Services lab on behalf of clients. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">To learn how to deposit your soil sample at the Durham County Cooperative Extension office before November
22, visit<a name="_Hlk87610671"> </a></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk87610671"></span></span><a href="https://go.ncsu.edu/durhamsoiltesting"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk87610671"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">https://go.ncsu.edu/durhamsoiltesting</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk87610671"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk87610671"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">After November 22, 2021, community members can still have their soil analyzed by taking samples to the N.C. Department of Agriculture
and Consumer Services Agronomic Services lab at 4300 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 or by mailing samples to NCDA&CS Agronomic Division; Soil Testing Section; 1040 Mail Service Center; Raleigh, NC 27699-1040
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Peak-season soil testing fees are set to take effect December 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022, pending
final approval by the N.C. Board of Agriculture at its meeting on Friday, November 19, 2021. Submitting soil samples to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Agronomic Services lab before that date will mean growers and homeowners can avoid
the $4 per sample fee.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">For more information about soil sample testing contact Pana Jones at 919-560-0521 or
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">N.C. Cooperative Extension is a strategic partnership of NC State University, N.C. A&T State University, USDA’s National Institute
of Food and Agriculture, and local governments statewide. Extension professionals in all 100 counties, and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, connect millions of North Carolinians with research-based information and technology from the universities.
Educational programs specialize in agriculture, food and nutrition, 4-H youth development, community development and the environment. Find your local center at</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">
</span></span><a href="http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/local-county-center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">www.ces.ncsu.edu/local-county-center</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk503992702"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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