If your looking for a way to give back this holiday season, The Florida Natural Resources Conservation Service is looking for people with variety of skills and talents to join their Earth Team.
Tough to Agree Upon Climate Change Resolution
American Farm Bureau chief economist, Bob Young, says when you look at the cap and trade proposals in both the U.S. House and Senate, the one thing that is agreed upon is that there will certainly be a major impact on agriculture. However not agreed upon, is whether that change will be good or bad.
New Herbicide Tolerant Trait Technology for Soybeans
With soybean acreage on the rise here in the Southeast, Kevin Tomka, District Sales Manager with Dow AgroSciences, says that they have a new herbicide tolerant trait technology that will help growers maintain that acreage while battling herbicide resistance.
U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 1 Percent
Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter in the U.S. on December 1st was 11.3 million head, which was 1 percent below December 1, 2008.
NCBA Concerned about Estate Tax
Colin Woodall, Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, talks about the estate tax law and what it means that it’s set to expire at the end of the year.
Peanut Exports are Down
The latest peanut export and import numbers have been released as Tyron Spearman reports most came in lower again.
Updates On Florida Citrus Ad Agency, Juice Sales
In the first of these reports, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff provides an update on the search for a Florida Department of Citrus advertising agency. In the second, he reports on orange juice and grapefruit juice retail sales in 2009. Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic Copper per acre.
FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Trailtrotter Program
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Florida Division of Forestry’s Trailtrotter program, which awards patches to participating equestrians who ride horse trails in Florida State Forests to achieve various levels of accomplishment. More information is available online by clicking on Trailtrotter Program.
Varroa Mite
Where did it come from and what is its connection to CCD? Everett Griner tells us what scientists’ are working on about this.
Weekly Livestock Market Report
For the last time in 2009, here are the cattle market numbers put together by the livestock market news services in Alabama, Florida and Georgia for the week ending December 18th. AL: FL: GA: