There are changes coming to the crop insurance program which Tyron Spearman explains for growers along with a reminder about the sales closing date which is just days away for the 2010 crop. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts …
Animal Waste To Energy & By-Products – An Ocala Demonstration
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson (w/ hat in photos) hosted numerous media outlets and about a hundred guests Tuesday at a bioenergy test project in Ocala. This process helps manage animal wastes while also producing energy and agricultural by-products. Sigarca, Inc.’s experiemental Bioenergy Plant is set up at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Ocala, FL, where it processes horse manure …
Rethinking Channels for Older Meat Animals
The Obama Administration is rethinking channels for older animals such as dairy cows used for ground beef when it comes to their approach to meat inspections. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025
Food Check-Out Week
Americans are eating cheaper than anyone and Everett Griner is here to tell us how much cheaper. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025
Proposed Nutrient Standards Would Affect Everyone
Congressman Adam Putnam says EPA’s proposed numeric nutrient standards would have a tremendous affect on agriculture and the state of Florida as a whole. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025
Supreme Court Decision Tightens Pesticide Regulation
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused American Farm Bureau’s request to re-open the case of the National Cotton Council VS the the Environmental Protection Agency that struck down a 2006 EPA rule allowing permit-free pesticide use – as long as label restrictions were followed. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle …
The Need to Strengthen Americas Food Safety System
Chris Waldrop of the Food Policy Institute says over the past several years a number of large nationwide outbreaks linked to common everyday foods has heightened the consumer concern as well as demonstrated holes in the food safety system. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober …
High Density Planting And Citrus Greening Disease
In these reports from Ernie Neff, University of Florida researcher Kelly Morgan discusses promising research into growers’ possible use of high density plantings to cope with greening disease. The hope is that growers will get high, early production before too many trees succumb to the disease. Download Audio Download Audio Download Audio Post sponsor: Copper coverage with Less Metallic Copper …
FL GLCI Projects Discussed Nationally
At the Fourth National Conference on Grazing Lands Pete Deal, (pictured left) NRCS Area Rangeland Management Specialist in Florida, presented a poster paper concerning a phosphorus project they conducted… Another poster presentation was made at the event by Chad Ellis, (pictured rigft) NRCS State Rangeland Management Specialist in Florida, which focused on GLCI in the state. Download Audio For more …
AL Producer Promoting Organic Cattle Production
Randall Hastings of Baldwin County, Alabama is a cattle producer working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama through a new organic program for his operation. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, …