Southeast AgNET

  • A multi-media enterprise dedicated to “deep southeast” agriculture…
    News

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Renewable Energy

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the critical need for renewable energy in Florida.


Download Audio

To read an op-ed piece by Commissioner Charles Bronson on the topic, click on Bio-Power Opportunities.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Prescribed Fire

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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).


Download Audio

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Florida’s Tastiest Catch

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.”

Download Audio
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.

Animal Waste To Energy & By-Products – An Ocala Demonstration

several regional media outlets covered this bioenergy demonstration at Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Ocala FL TuesdayFlorida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson (w/ hat in photos) hosted numerous media Dr Jose Sifontes explains the process while Ag Commissioner Bronson looks onoutlets 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 »

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Ag Literacy Day

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.


Download Audio

Online registration for the event is available on the Florida Agriculture in the Classroom’s web site.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on FL Grapefruit in England

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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).


Download Audio

More information is available online by clicking on, Taste the Warmth of FLORIDA SUNSHINE.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Ag Hall of Fame

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.


Download Audio

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Ag Woman of the Year

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Marcia LightseyCommissioner 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.


Download Audio

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Citrus Research Referendum

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Arbor Day

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Firewise Homes

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Trailwalker Program

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

More information is available online by clicking on Trailwalker Program.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Trailtrotter Program

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner Spotlight on the Florida Ag Stats Directory

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Ag Environmental Awards

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the 2009 Farm to Fuel Summit

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonFarm to Fuel SummitThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Florida Christmas Trees

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Farm-City Week

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commmissioner’s Spotlight on Operation Cleansweep

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

More information is available on line by clicking on “Operation Cleansweep.”

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Florida-Grown Products

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

More information about the promotion is available online by clicking on Simple Meals “Fresh from Florida”.

Agriscience Education Leadership Program

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Overseas Buyers for Thoroughbreds

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

More information is available online by clicking on Florida Thoroughbred Buying Event.

FL Commissioners Spotlight on Additives Banned in FL Honey

FL Ag Commissioner Charles BronsonThis 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.

FL Commissioners Spotlight on National Seafood Month

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.

Commissioners Spotlight on Xtreme Cuisine Contest

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.

FDACS’ Bronson Notes Passing “Legendary” State Forester Bethea

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 »

FL Commissioners Spotlight on Fairs and Expos

This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about Florida’s fairs and agricultural expositions.

More information, including dates and locations, is available on the web by clicking on Florida Fairs and Expositions.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Laurel Wilt in Avocado Trees

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.

FL Commissioners Spotlight on H1N1 Influenza

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.

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight

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.

Web development & design by