Florida Ag Operations Awarded USDA Grants to Reach New Markets

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GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 28, 2010 (USDA – Rural Development, Florida Office) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently announced five Florida agricultural enterprises will receive $1,086,500 in business development grants to pursue new value-added marketing opportunities. The funding is made available through the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Value-Added Producer Grant program.

Please Help Me If You Can – I Need and Want A Good Home!

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I realize this post is unusual, but my wife Robin and I here at AgNet headquarters are trying to help find a good home for a wonderful puppy, presently staying at our vet’s office. We would love to have the dog but just adding a fourth rescued puppy to our own home recently, along with our four rescued cats too, …

Cost of Cuts at Land Grant Universities – A Guest Column

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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 …

FL NRCS Reminds Producers of Energy Audit Deadline

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Kenneth Morgan, program specialist with the Florida Natural Resources Conservation Service, says with a upcoming deadline of Thursday, June 17, time is getting short for producers to sign up for this round of funding for an Agricultural Energy Management Plan. For more information visit your local NRCS field office or visit them online. Download Audio News post sponsor: AGROTAIN® controls …

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Office of Ag Water Policy

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This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Florida Department of Agriculture’s Office of Ag Water Policy, which was established to facilitate communications among federal, state, local agencies, and the agricultural industry on water quantity and water quality issues involving agriculture; and to help Florida farmers maintain access to sufficient water supplies. More information is …