University of Georgia Extension Soil Scientist Dr. Glen Harris says you need to keep the calcium levels up in your peanut fields, and thus if you don’t have your gypsum out yet, in most cases it’s still not too late. Download Audio
Cattlemen Need to Get the Message Out
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Steve Foglesong believes cattle producers across the country need to work together to get their message out to consumers. Download Audio
Southern Peanut Growers Conference
The 2010 Southern Peanut Growers Conference is coming up yet this week, July 22-24 at the Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, Florida. Download Audio For more information about this years conference click Here
FL Enrolls Record Acreage in NRCS Wetlands Reserve Program
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan has announced a major wetlands project designed to restore and protect wetlands that will improve water quality and provide habitat for rare, endangered and threatened animals, birds and plants in the northern Everglades. The project is the largest contiguous easement acquisition in the history of USDA’s Wetlands Reserve Program with 26 thousand acres. Download Audio
Building the BioEnergy Market for the Southeastern Farmer
With bio-energy all the buzz, many southeastern producers are looking into different types of perennial grasses as viable feedstock options. But Dewey Lee, grain agronomist with the University of Georgia, says the industry is still in the midst of building a viable market for the products. Download Audio
Celebrating National Ice Cream Month
As we swelter in the July heat, we have a reason to raise our glasses, or maybe we should say bowls, as in icecream bowls, since July is National Ice Cream Month. Learn more in the following reports: Download Audio Download Audio Download Audio
FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on the Farm to Fuel Summit
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the 2010 Farm to Fuel Summit being held in Orlando on August 11, 12 and 13. More information is available online by clicking on Summit. Download Audio
Citrus Canker Rule Changes Impact Florida Growers
Florida’s fresh citrus industry benefitted from a new canker rule that was in place for the last fruit season, Florida Citrus Packers Executive Vice President Richard Kinney says in the first report. In the second report, he says the Japanese market will open to canker-blemished fruit next season; he also gives an update on efforts to get other nations to …
Citrus Expo Topic: SARs In Disease Management
University of Florida researcher Jim Graham will discuss potential uses of systemic acquired resistance products in citrus disease management at Citrus Expo on Aug. 18. He provides an overview of his topic in the first report; in the second report he says growers can put his information to use right away. 1. Download Audio 2. Download Audio CLICK THE EXPO …
Bee Mystery
CCD still plagues the bee industry and Everett Griner talks on this today. Download Audio