Florida Agriculture Coalition on 2017 Legislative Session

Florida Agriculture Coalition

Jim Spratt

The 2017 Florida Legislative Session is scheduled to end this Friday, and during this last week, Southeast AgNet Tallahassee Intern Josie Tomkow caught up with Jim Spratt, chair of the Florida Agriculture Coalition. He looks at some of the issues they’ve been tracking the past few weeks.

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