China to Start Accepting U.S. Pork

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Georgia, Livestock, Pork

China has reached an agreement to reopen their market to U.S. pork and pork products after lifting its H1N1-related ban. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Proposal to Expand Poultry Loan Guidance

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Georgia, Livestock, Pork, Poultry

USDA is expanding guidance currently in place for loans to contract poultry operations meant to protect them from questionable business practices to include contract pork operations. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Bronson To Kick Off Ag Literacy Day

Dan Cattle, Citrus, Cotton, Field Crops, Florida, Forestry, General, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Specialty Crops, Sugar

BRONSON TO KICK OFF AG LITERACY DAY BY READING TO STUDENTS IN THE CAPITOL TALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson will read to two fourth-grade classes from Astoria Park Elementary School at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 23, in the Cabinet Room of The Capitol to kick off the seventh anniversary of Agriculture Literacy Day. He …

FL Horse Owners Urged to Vaccinate Animals

Randall Weiseman Equine, Florida, General, Livestock

TALLAHASSEE — With the arrival of spring and warmer weather, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today reminded horse owners to get their animals vaccinated for mosquito borne diseases. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Converting Animal Waste to Energy

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Dairy, Energy, Equine, FL Commissioner Report, Florida, Livestock

This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about a bio-energy plant located at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Marion County, that processes horse manure into renewable energy, organic soil and soil tonic (bio-fertilizers) and gives Florida’s substantial equine industry an environmentally superior method of disposing of animal waste. Download Audio More information is available online by …

Peanut Calendar

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Peanuts

Tyron Spearman has information about an event coming up on this week’s peanut calendar. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Market Overflow

Dan Agri View, Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia

Everett Griner explains to us today just how the farmers markets are outgrowing demand. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Albritton: Citrus Research Panels Should Consolidate

Dan Citrus, Florida, General

The Florida Citrus Commission last week funded the Florida Citrus Industry Research Coordinating Council for 16 more months at a cost of $134,667. Citrus Commission Chairman Ben Albritton praises the group’s work, but says it must eventually show how it will fit under the new Citrus Research and Development Foundation’s umbrella. Download Audio Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic …

Citrus Research On Boyd Cocktail And HLB Updated

Dan Citrus, Florida

University of Florida researcher Bob Rouse has been doing studies on the so-called “Boyd cocktail” of nutrients and other products that has kept grower Maury Boyd’s HLB-infected trees alive for years. In the first of these reports, Rouse says researchers are pretty certain it’s the nutrients, and not other products in the cocktail, that are keeping trees alive. Download Audio …