Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸

Sinner saved by Grace. Husband, Father, Farmer, and Volunteer Firefighter in Small-Town, USA trying to run down a dream.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Out in the tobacco fields of New Bern, North Carolina at David Parker Farms alongside @Sonderling47, NC Labor Commissioner Luke Farley, and NC Ag Commissioner Steve Troxler!

North Carolina is America’s #1 producer of tobacco — growing roughly 60% of all the tobacco in the United States — and there’s nothing like being right here on the ground with our hard-working producers. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

Good morning beautiful...
#prideintobacco

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

I am excited to cooperate on a @PioneerSeeds #corn trial with @CortevaUS for the first time! #plant26 is off to a great start and this plot should be up soon! #plantpioneer

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

Pretty much anytime in my lifetime I would have expected @PackMensBball to lose by 20+ to Kansas. I would have been happy with a 1 point loss. Elated. For some reason this one hurts even more than the normal NC State s#*%. We are soooo close to being there.

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

Proud of you buddy! Keep working! @kellen_smith02

[NC State Baseball @NCStateBaseball]

Making Raleigh home.

Welcome to the Pack, @kellen_smith02!

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

I was proud to be part of the launch of the Grow It Here Coalition this week. Farmers like me see every day how labor shortages impact our ability to compete and survive. It’s time for practical solutions. #GrowItHere https://t.co/KFAkKqNK2X

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

It's not just soybeans. Tobacco, peanuts, and cotton are all being impacted. Farming in North Carolina is a sum of multiple pieces. When multiple crops are hurting or being excluded from the world's biggest consumer, it puts farms and communities at risk.

[ABC11 EyewitnessNews @ABC11_WTVD]

NC farmers say soybeans are latest casualty of trade war between U.S. and China https://t.co/BituDYhBdD

[Science for Success @SoybeanScience1]

After biscuits we got to hear from @ncsoybeans farmer-leader @bdbatten about his farm and how he is implementing #AgTech! For many students, this was their first time seeing tobacco! #ScienceForSuccess

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

@SoybeanScience1 @ncsoybeans So glad y'all stopped by! Thank you for the opportunity! Always happy to host a group like this! #soybeans #agtech

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

What a difference a year can make. @AgVentureInc 9916 starting to dent and looking like we might have a little something! @swcseeds13 #corn #harvest25

[Senator Thom Tillis @SenThomTillis]

One of the provisions tucked away in the House tax bill is a tax hike that would decimate North Carolina’s tobacco farmers. I stand with our hardworking growers and I’m pushing to get this hidden tax removed from the One Big Beautiful Bill.

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

@Mr_Black_Cotton I appreciate ya @Mr_Black_Cotton!

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

@MauriceShelton @SarahTaber_bww Let em cook! If they are talking about me they are giving someone else a break! 😉

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

@blake_vince @FarmrHuntr We bought a 1590 recently and the gauge wheel adjustments are a bear. We are having to remove the unit, press out that shaft and clean and re-grease about 1/2 of them. Previous owner didn't believe in maintenance. Everything else was fairly straightforward, bearings etc.

[PreppyBumpkin @PreppyBumpkin]

North Carolina, as someone who loves NC agriculture and is a small farmer, I beg you NOT to vote for Sarah Taber. She may talk with a lot of words, but she has no clue about realities facing food systems. Don’t buy the hype and lies , vote Troxler. #NCPol

[Rob Fleming @FlemingRob62955]

#CottonChallenge #TakeAction #AgChallenge @SenThomTillis @SenTedBuddNC @DonDavisNC

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I'm gonna free fall out into nothing
Gonna leave this world for a while
#freefalling

[Brandon Batten🍂🌾🌱🌽🇺🇸 @bdbatten]

How many people does it take to turn off the irrigation? I don't know, but I know how many we used! 3 generations. We are growing more than crops. This picture is a dream come true that I get to live, breathe, and love. Every. Single. Day.
#Prayforrain #faithfamilyfarming

[NC State Baseball @NCStateBaseball]

It was always the Pack💥