GATE Discussions Continue with Georgia General Assembly

Randall Weiseman March 18, 2016 Cattle, Field Crops, Forestry, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Seeds, Specialty Crops

Bryan Tolar

Discussions concerning GATE, the Georgia Agriculture Tax Exemption, continue in Atlanta. Bryan Tolar, president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council, says it continues to work on this issue with just two days left in the 2016 session.

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Two Genome-Edited Trees Are Approved
Two non-transgenic genome-edited orange plants — a Hamlin and a Valencia that may resist HLB — have been federally approved and are ready for Florida growers. Nian Wang, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences eminent scholar endowed chair in biotechnology, reported this news in a June 17 virtual presentation. The plants, which […]
CRAFT to Put $104.5 Million to Work
The Citrus Research and Field Trial (CRAFT) Foundation recently announced that the Florida Legislature allocated an historic amount of funding to citrus research in the 2025–26 state budget. CRAFT is expected to receive $104.5 million of the allocated funding to continue applied research through large-scale field trials. The CRAFT Foundation is designing new programs with this […]

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