NRCS Encourages Producers to Look into the New CSP

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Field Crops, Forestry, Livestock, Specialty Crops, USDA-NRCS

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service wants to encourage producers who have not yet signed up for the Conservation Stewardship Program to take another look at the program. As NRCS Chief Dave White says their have been many changes made to make the program more farmer friendly. Download Audio The deadline for 2010 funding for CSP is Friday, June 25, 2010.

Cost of Cuts at Land Grant Universities – A Guest Column

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

This article is by Mark R. McLellan, Dean for Research, University of Florida/IFAS With the deepest recession since the 1930s, the decline in tax revenues, and the growing demand for emergency public services for unemployed workers and their families, state government budgets are in crisis. Not surprisingly, many states are freezing or even cutting their funding for some of the …

Food Policy Bills Could Become Casualties of a Short Calendar

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Dairy, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia, Pork, Poultry, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Time is not on the side of those who support two food policy bills in the Senate. One would strengthen the FDA’s food safety authority – the other is designed to fight child obesity. But despite bipartisan support – the legislation may never reach the Senate floor because there’s not much room on the Senate calendar and time is running …