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Mike Switzer interviews Brittney Miller, second-generation owner of Manchester Farms in Columbia, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews Brittney Miller, second-generation owner of Manchester Farms in Columbia, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews Ritubarna Banerjee, president and CEO of Advent Innovations in Columbia, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews Ritubarna Banerjee, president and CEO of Advent Innovations in Columbia, SC.

Shalonda Summers, a chicken farmer in Barnwell County, said her upcoming move from half-an-acre of land to about 11 acres could amount to nothing.

Guest Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette, tells us that the new gas plant planned for Canadys has significantly increased cost estimates.

Guest Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette, tells us that the new gas plant planned for Canadys has significantly increased cost estimates.

At the turn of the 20th century, the South Carolina State Farmers Market was simply known as “Columbia’s City Market,” located on Assembly Street. It was there that George Oswald and his family labored daily, arriving before the sun rose, then packing up well past sundown.

The philanthropic arm of Wells Fargo is providing $600,000 to the South Carolina Research Authority to fund the Cultivating Innovation in SC Agribusiness grant program.

Mike Switzer interviews Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette in Columbia, SC, about farmland preservation efforts, a new factory coming to Colleton County, the state housing authority moving ahead with affordable home building, and a new vision for the state ports authority.