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Batts Honored to Serve as ACA President

Dan February 15, 2019 Alabama, Cattle

The 76th Annual Alabama Cattlemen’s Association (ACA) Convention and Trade Show is underway at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) in Birmingham. The trade show officially opens this afternoon and various topics at the Cattlemen’s College are being discussed. But tomorrow night, Jack Batts from Limestone County will see his year as ACA president come to an end. He told Southeast AgNet’s Randall Weiseman …

Batts Looking Forward to Leading ACA

Dan March 9, 2018 Alabama, Cattle

The 75th Annual Alabama Cattlemen’s Association (ACA) Convention and Trade Show is underway at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. The trade show officially opened this afternoon and various topics at the Cattlemen’s College are being discussed. Tomorrow, Jack Batts from Limestone County will take over as ACA president. He told Southeast AgNet’s Randall Weiseman he is looking forward to …

Five-Year Strategy for Fruit Flies Announced
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has released its Fruit Fly Exclusion and Detection Program Strategy. The plan covers the period of 2024 to 2028. The agency called the document “a unified roadmap” for protecting American agriculture from the threat of invasive fruit flies. USDA APHIS worked with […]
Finger Lime Field Day Draws Mostly Non-Citrus Crowd
Only a few Florida commercial citrus growers were on hand for an April 24 finger lime field day at the Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) in Lake Alfred. Most of the more than 40 attendees did not own citrus groves, and about half were women — definitely not the standard crowd for a CREC […]