GA Cattlemen Preparing for Convention

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Georgia

The Georgia Cattlemen’s Association want to remind producers about their annual convention coming up in April, as GCA President-elect Bill Nutt said they’ve been working to get things out together.

AL-FL Peanut Trade Show is Thursday

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, Peanuts

The annual Alabama-Florida Peanut Trade Show coming up this Thursday, February 12th in Dothan, Alabama and Teresa Wilson, information specialist with the Alabama Peanut Producers Association, said growers from across the region are invited to attend.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Florida Agriculture Literacy Day

Randall Weiseman FL Commissioner Report

This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, Inc.’s sixth annual Florida Agriculture Literacy Day, scheduled for Tuesday March 24, 2009. More information is available on the web by clicking on FL Ag Literacy Day and FL Ag in the Classroom.

Tracy Magness wins the $25,000 HITS Grand Prix at HITS Ocala

Randall Weiseman Equine

OCALA, FL (February 6, 2009)— The rated series of the 2009 HITS Ocala Winter Circuit crowned its first winning Grand Prix pair on Thursday, when Tracy Magness rode Mr. and Mrs. John Bartko’s Tarco Van Ter Moude to the blue in the $25,000 HITS Grand Prix at HITS Post Time Farm, in Ocala, Florida.

Headline for Cotton Gives Consistent Results

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cotton, Georgia

BASF Chemical Company launched Headline for cotton during the 2008 growing season through a large number of on-farm trials in the Southeast and Dr. Amber Shirley, Technical Service Specialist, says that the results showed some real promise amid last year’s unique growing season.

2007 Ag Census Shows Increase in Lifestyle Farms

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia

The National Agricultural Statistics Service’s 2007 Census of Agriculture revealed that the most common type of farm is lifestyle or retirement farms. NASS defines those farms as having less than 250 thousand in sales with the operator either being retired or with a primary occupation outside of farming. Statistics Director, Joe Prusacki, noted that 13 percent of the farms counted …