Source: NCDA&CS, 3/30/22

We Are Agriculture is a year-long series that will highlight the hard-work done by employees across the Department of Agriculture. Joe Hudyncia, Environmental Programs Specialist with our Environmental Programs Division, is one of those employees. Stay tuned each Wednesday here on the blog or any of our social media accounts and join us in honoring those who continue to drive our state’s agriculture industry forward each day!

Ever since he was a little boy, Joe Hudyncia has had a strong love for agriculture. Growing up on a small family dairy farm, Joe and his siblings were raised under the arms of a father that impacted their life both then and now. “I was my dad’s shadow as a kid.

I would follow him around everywhere he went, whether that was to work on the tractor or take care of the cows,” Joe said. “I immediately fell in love with the cows and was milking them from the time that I could stand on my toes to reach the vacuum line.”

This immersion in agriculture from a young age fueled Joe’s work in plant science research at N.C. State University and career with the NCDA&CS as well as his sibling’s career in continuing to carry on the family farm, which is currently on the third generation.

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