El Nino Weather Watch

Dan Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Crop Forecasts, Dairy, Energy, Equine, Field Crops, Florida, Forestry, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables, Weather

In this report, USDA Radio’s Gary Crawford (photo) talks with Meteorologist Brad Rippey about the potential for an El Nino weather pattern to develop, and if it does, what the impacts on various areas of the U S may be.

Southeast Beef Bytes4

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Dairy, Florida, Georgia, Livestock

Funded by the National Beef Checkoff, this is week four in our Southeast Beef Bytes series, where we have been talking with producers from around the Southeast about the checkoff. This week we are in Macon, Mississippi with Jacob Megehee, a cattle producer who feels the checkoff is important to everyone who produces beef. To learn more about how your …

Additional Signup for Precision Farming Incentive

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Field Crops, USDA-NRCS

State Conservationist Dr. William Puckett with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced June 19, 2009, as the cutoff date for an additional signup for the new Precision Farming Incentive under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Applying for EQIP is continuous; however, selecting applications for funding is completed periodically through batching periods with specific cutoff dates.