Several major bills are making their way through the Georgia General Assembly and we caught up with Will Bentley with the Georgia Agribusiness Council for an update. (Note: Since recording this interview, the tort reform bill has passed both chambers.) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Supports Beef Education and Promotion ProgramsJanuary 23, 2026Florida Cattle Producers Proactive In Research Efforts Funded …
USDA Announces Five-Pronged Approach to Combat Avian Flu and Lower Egg Prices
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a five-pronged strategy to address highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), as well as lowering egg prices. The strategy includes strengthening biosecurity assessments, expediting relief for producers to accelerate repopulation, reducing regulatory burdens to expand supply and lower prices, exploring temporary import-export adjustments to stabilize the supplies of eggs domestically, and investing $100 Million …
New Florida Beef Council Board Member Discusses Recent Training in Denver
Cattle producers from across the country gathered last week to experience training on their new roles as beef council board members representing their home states. Florida Beef Council Board Member Kevin Escobar recapped this training. Â Escobar also pointed out the return on investment that the Beef Checkoff is providing. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Supports Beef Education and Promotion ProgramsJanuary …
Alabama Cattlemen’s Association Hosts Farm Tours with Dieticians
The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association held farm tours with the Alabama Dietetic Association members in conjunction with their annual meeting. The group toured Curtis Farms in North Alabama and had the ability to interact with the farm’s owners on production practices within the industry as well as interacting with a beef influencer to discuss the ways in which the dietician’s patients …
Milk Production Forecast for 2025
Forecasts for the 2025 milk production and prices and other trends were recently released. Rusty Halvorson has a look at what the new predictions show. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Supports Beef Education and Promotion ProgramsJanuary 23, 2026Florida Cattle Producers Proactive In Research Efforts Funded by the Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardJanuary 16, 2026Florida Cattle Industry Supports Administration of Florida Cattle …
Concerns about Pesticide Labeling Regulations
The peanut industry recently sent a letter to Washington D.C. about concerns with the misrepresentation concerning labeling regulations for pesticides. Tyron Spearman has more details. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Supports Beef Education and Promotion ProgramsJanuary 23, 2026Florida Cattle Producers Proactive In Research Efforts Funded by the Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardJanuary 16, 2026Florida Cattle Industry Supports Administration of Florida Cattle Enhancement …
Feeder Cattle Supplies Getting Tighter
The recent Cattle on Feed Report from USDA indicates feeder cattle supplies are getting tighter. Mark Oppold runs through some of the new numbers. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Supports Beef Education and Promotion ProgramsJanuary 23, 2026Florida Cattle Producers Proactive In Research Efforts Funded by the Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardJanuary 16, 2026Florida Cattle Industry Supports Administration of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardJanuary 9, 2026Florida …
Australia’s Beef Production and Exports Set Records
Beef output and exports from Australia, the world’s second-largest meat shipper, are expected to set records this year amid increased slaughter rates for female animals. A USDA report from the agency’s office in Canberra, Australia, says production will be 2.65 million metric tons (carcass weight equivalent) in 2025, a 2.4 percent year-over-year increase and up from the prior projection of …
American Agriculture History Minute: Missouri Boot Hill Logging Industry Begins
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Agricultural development flourish in most Midwestern states, including Missouri. But the Missouri Bootheel remains swampy and subject to flooding and remain heavily forested, remain underdeveloped, underpopulated. But, beginning in the 1880s, railroads opened up the Bootheel to logging. 1905, Little River Drainage District constructed elaborate ditches, canals, and levees to drain …
USDA-FSA Accepting Applications for E-CAP
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) wants to remind producers about the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (E-CAP). Relief payments through E-CAP are based on planted and prevented planted crop acres for eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year. Tyron Spearman has more details. To apply, visit fsa.usda.gov/ecap  using a login.gov account, or contact your local FSA office to request an application. Producers who have not previously reported 2024 crop year …