The Peanut Advisory Board is helping to promote Chet’s Peanut Butter toppings, a new squeezable peanut butter product that comes in a variety of flavors. Check them out on line at www.harrisfamilyfoods.com
It is with great sadness and tremendously heavy hearts we report of the passing of Lee V. McCoy, known to many of his legions of friends and colleagues as the “RealMcCoy”. Lee lost his battle with cancer early morning Thursday May 22 in a Georgia hospital, admitted the Monday before in a bout with pneumonia.
Please find details regarding Lee’s memorial services at the end of this news post.
For nearly a decade until making a move into a new career opportunity last year, Lee was a regional representative of this radio network. He travelled the region and nation, and occassionally overseas, newsgathering and representing the network from his home location Read the rest of this entry »
Grass fed meat is getting to be more popular these days, but it does require some different cooking methods to bring out the best flavor. Grass fed meat producer Shannon Hayes has written a book called “The Farmer and The Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing, and Spit-Roasting Grass-Fed Meat,” that offers some tips and techniques and Laura McNamara did a week-long series about grass fed meat and the book.
Here are some different photos of Tropical Soda Apple, and a new link for important new TSA BMP’s for seed, sod, and pasture situations. Stay tuned to Southeast AgNet in weeks ahead for more features and information on protecting your pastures, seed production and sod plantings from this “Weed from Hell.”
You may hear a new voice on the network covering the “This Land of Ours” beat.
She is Laura McNamara from Missouri and even though she is young, she has wide-ranging international experience as a broadcast and new media journalist. She has covered Missouri state politics for a statewide radio network, The Missourinet. She spent last summer working in Rome, where she mostly covered news from the Vatican. She did work for the television news agency, RomeReports. Laura earned her broadcast journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. While a student, Laura also worked as a television reporter and fill-in anchor for KOMU NewsChannel 8 in Columbia and as a radio reporter for Missouri Digital News out of the Capitol in Jefferson City. Since early this year, she has been working with ZimmComm New Media, covering ethanol racing events like the Indy 500 and contributing to both AgWired and DomesticFuel.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the site for both tradition and innovation this past weekend at the 91st Indy 500. Tradition honors the dairy industry when the winner of the race drinks a bottle of milk in Victory Lane, and the innovation this year was that all cars ran on 100 percent farm-produced, fuel grade ethanol.
Most public schools offer breakfast through the USDA food and nutrition program, but often too few students take advantage of that morning brain boost. The Marion County Florida school system is working to change that through a major pilot program called Breakfast Breaks.
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In just five weeks, the average American earns enough disposable income to pay for his or her food supply for the entire year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
As the citrus growing areas of California face a crippling freeze, Florida grapefruit growers are busy gathering up the best crop they’ve seen in two years at the same time grapefruit plays a starring role in the new Best Life Diet Book by Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer.
“Seize Life” is the theme of the 27th National Beef Cook off to be held this September in Chicago. The Cook off will include four new categories to emphasize beef’s role in a healthy lifestyle and to get kids involved. More information on the Beef Cook off, which is funded by the one dollar per head beef checkoff is available at www.beefcookoff.org.
The move toward zero trans fats is in full swing around this land of ours. Kelly Brintle with Ventura Foods, which markets soybean oil based products to restaurants like KFC and Wendy’s and food service operators like hospitals and schools, says the trend is changing an entire industry. Report (1:00 wma)
The holidays are traditionally nutty times – that is, the time of year when we eat more tree nuts than our average consumption - and USDA says there are plenty of almonds, walnuts and pecans for us to enjoy. Report (1:00 wma)
The Peanut Advisory Board is helping to promote Chet’s Peanut Butter toppings, a new squeezable peanut butter product that comes in a variety of flavors. Check them out on line at www.harrisfamilyfoods.com
A peanut paste product is helping to nourish starving children around the world back to health.
It is with great sadness and tremendously heavy hearts we report of the passing of Lee V. McCoy, known to many of his legions of friends and colleagues as the “RealMcCoy”. Lee lost his battle with cancer early morning Thursday May 22 in a Georgia hospital, admitted the Monday before in a bout with pneumonia. 
Grass fed meat is getting to be more popular these days, but it does require some different cooking methods to bring out the best flavor. Grass fed meat producer Shannon Hayes has written a book called “The Farmer and The Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing, and Spit-Roasting Grass-Fed Meat,” that offers some tips and techniques and Laura McNamara did a week-long series about grass fed meat and the book.
Here are some different photos of Tropical Soda Apple, and 
pasture situations. Stay tuned to Southeast AgNet in weeks ahead for more features and information on protecting your pastures, seed production and sod plantings from this “Weed from Hell.”
You may hear a new voice on the network covering the “This Land of Ours” beat.
Her first report for SE Agnet is on the 
Autumn is traditionally time for apples but today’s apple varieties are more than just Delicious.
2006 National Watermelon Queen Candice Fralish of Alabama offers some advice on how to choose ripe and tasty watermelon.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the site for both tradition and innovation this past weekend at the 91st Indy 500. Tradition honors the dairy industry when the winner of the race drinks a bottle of milk in Victory Lane, and the innovation this year was that all cars ran on 100 percent farm-produced, fuel grade ethanol.
Production and consumption of chili peppers continues to increase across this land of ours.
A multi-country effort is being launched to help increase lamb consumption in the US. 
Take heart, chocolate lovers – the sweet treat is not as bad as some people think it is, according to at least one extension nutrition specialist.
Check out just how affordable food is in this land of ours!
“Seize Life” is the theme of the 27th National Beef Cook off to be held this September in Chicago. The Cook off will include four new categories to emphasize beef’s role in a healthy lifestyle and to get kids involved. More information on the Beef Cook off, which is funded by the one dollar per head beef checkoff is available at 
