Why E-Verify is a Real Concern for FL Growers

Randall Weiseman April 29, 2011 Florida, Nursery Crops, Specialty Crops

As we enter the last week of Florida’s 2011 Legislative Session, immigration continues to be a top issue for agriculture and Jim Spratt, director of government affairs for the Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association, explains why.

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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 […]

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