This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the importance of prescribed burning to the health of Florida’s forests and safety in our wildland/urban interfaces. More information is available on the Florida Division of Forestry web site by clicking on Prescribed Fire. To view or download a brochure on the topic, click on Prescribed Fire In the Wildland/ Urban Interface (PDF).
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about how three of the world’s most recognizable commercial fishing personalities are helping to promote Florida’s seafood products and “working waterfronts.”
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More information about how Captains Sig Hansen and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand are lending a hand is available online by clicking on Florida’s Tastiest Catch. To learn more about the fishing communities that supply most of our fresh Florida seafood, click on Working Waterfronts.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson (w/ hat in photos) hosted numerous media outlets and about a hundred guests Tuesday at a bioenergy test project in Ocala. This process helps manage animal wastes while also producing energy and agricultural by-products. Sigarca, Inc.’s experiemental Bioenergy Plant is set up at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Ocala, FL, where it processes horse manure into renewable energy, organic soil and bio-fertilizers. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about this year’s Ag Literacy Day, scheduled for March 23. More information is available online by clicking on Ag News.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Florida pink grapefruit being featured in 220 Waitrose stores in and around London during January and February. The promotion builds upon a multiyear marketing relationship between Waitrose and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS).
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the induction of four new members into the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame at the Florida State Fair in Tampa on February 9th. More information is available online by clicking on Ag Hall of Fame and 2010 Inductees.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Marcia Lightsey of Lake Wales being honored as “Woman of the Year in Agriculture” during the opening-day luncheon at the Florida State Fair in Tampa on February 4th. More information about Mrs. Lightsey is available online by clicking on Ag Woman.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the approval of a citrus research order by growers through a referendum. More information is available on the web by clicking on research order.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the January celebration of Arbor Day in Florida. More information is available on the FDACS Division of Forestry web site by clicking on Arbor Day.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is on how people who live in the wildland/urban interface can protect their homes from wildfires. More information is available online by clicking on Firewise.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Florida Division of Forestry’s Trailwalker program, which awards patches to participants who hike trails in Florida State Forests to achieve various levels of accomplishment.
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.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the ’09 Florida Agriculture Statistical Directory. To view the directory online as a PDF file, click on FL Ag Stats Directory.
To order a hardcopy of the directory, click on Brochures and Publications. The Florida Agriculture Statistical Directory is listed third on the online order form.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the 2009 Commissioner’s Agricultural-Environmental Leadership Awards that were presented during the Florida Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in Daytona Beach on October 30th. Click on Ag Environmental Awards for more information.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is on the 2009 Farm to Fuel Summit held in Orlando this past summer to explore ways of using crops and other biomass materials to provide ethanol and bio-diesel fuel to meet our energy needs.
For more information about Farm to Fuel and to view the presentations made by the speakers, click on Florida Farm to Fuel.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Florida Christmas tree farms and the advantages of live over artificial trees. More information is available online by clicking on Florida Christmas Trees.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Farm-City Week, which celebrates the vital farm-city partnerships that have done so much to improve the quality of our lives.
More information is available online by clicking on Farm-City Week.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about a program that gives farmers, nurseries, golf course operators, pest control services and the like, a safe and economical way to dispose of pesticides they can’t use.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Florida Department of Agriculture partnering with Publix to feature Florida produce next spring during in-store “Simple Meals” cooking demonstrations in all Publix Super Markets throughout the Southeast and in Publix cooking schools in five cities.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Agriscience Education Leadership Program, which gives teachers the chance to visit agricultural sites, meet with growers and industry representatives and talk with legislators and government administrators. More information about the program is available online by clicking on Agriscience Leadership.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the visit this past summer of buyers from Russia, South Korea and Italy to Ocala-Marion County to view Florida Thoroughbreds.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the first regulation in the nation prohibiting any additives, chemicals or adulterants in honey that is produced, processed or sold in Florida. More information is available online by clicking on Florida Honey Standard of Identity.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Florida Seafood and National Seafood Month. More information about Florida seafood is available online by clicking on Fresh from Florida Seafood.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about a cooking contest that has been added to “Xtreme Cuisine,” a program which introduces kids around the state to the world of cooking and good nutrition. More information is available online by clicking on Xtreme Cuisine Cooking Contest.
TALLAHASSEE (FDACS News Release) — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today announced the death of John M. Bethea, a dynamic leader in helping shape the current state of Florida’s 1 million-acre State Forest system. He was 89.
“Our current state forests owe a great deal to John’s vision and leadership,” Bronson said. “He was a man of great talent and energy whose entire professional career was spent developing and creating the forest system that millions of residents and visitors alike enjoy today on a daily basis.” Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the discovery of the fungus that causes laurel wilt disease in an avocado tree in Homestead. More information can be found on the web site of the FDACS Division of Plant Industry by clicking on Laurel Wilt in Avocado Trees.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is on the continued use by many of the misleading and inaccurate term, “swine flu” when referring to the current H1N1 influenza pandemic. More information is available online by clicking on H1N1.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is warning about how destructive tree and plant pests can be spread when firewood is transported.
More information is available from the FDACS Division of Plant Industry web site by clicking on Firewood.
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the critical need for renewable energy in Florida.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson (w/ hat in photos) hosted numerous media 
outlets and about a hundred guests Tuesday at a bioenergy test project in Ocala. This process helps manage animal wastes while also producing energy and agricultural by-products. Sigarca, Inc.’s experiemental Bioenergy Plant is set up at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Ocala, FL, where it processes horse manure into renewable energy, organic soil and bio-fertilizers. 
Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Marcia Lightsey of Lake Wales being honored as “Woman of the Year in Agriculture” during the opening-day luncheon at the Florida State Fair in Tampa on February 4th. More information about Mrs. Lightsey is available online by clicking on 
