AL Beef Events at Convention

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Cattle

The 66th annual Alabama Cattlemen’s Association Convention & Trade Show kicks off Friday morning in Montgomery, as Ed Whatley says the big trade show will include providing producers with information about how their beef checkoff dollars are working for them. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

FL-GA Producers Serve on Beef Board & CBB Executive Committee

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle, Florida, Georgia

A couple of cattle producers from the Southeast are serving in positions that are helping to shape how beef checkoff dollars work for producers not only in our region but also nationwide. One is Roger West of Gainesville, Florida with the other being Robert Fountain, Jr. of Adrian, Georgia. FL Report: GA Report: Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, …

Peanut Growers Wondering What to Plant

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, Peanuts

The Alabama-Florida Peanut Trade Show took place today in Dothan, where a good group of growers were on hand. Randy Griggs, with the Alabama Peanut Producers Association, said a lot of them are still trying to decide what would be best to plant this season. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers …

ARS Scientists Sequence Citrus Disease Bacterium

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, International

In what is being touted as a big step forward in citrus HLB, or greening disease, research, scientists with USDA’s Agriculture Research Service say they have sequenced the genome of the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, which causes HLB. The bacterium resides in the plant’s phloem tissues, affecting the passage of nutrients and eventually killing the plant. Read more about it …

Scot Eubanks Joins FFB Staff

Randall Weiseman Florida

Scot Eubanks has joined the Agricultural Policy Division at Florida Farm Bureau Federation as assistant director. Eubanks is the staff person working with the beef, sod and aquaculture committees as well as being the point person for those commodities. He will also work to build relationships with County Farm Bureau leaders, regulatory agencies and other farm organizations. Eubanks is a …

FEBRUARY 27, 2009 DEADLINE FOR FLORIDA WATER USERS

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, Sugar

This reminder thanks to Gene McAvoy, Regional Vegetable Agent IV, UF/IFAS Hendry Co Extension, LaBelle FL. Irrigation permits using surface water from Lake Okeechobee or its tributaries for landscape, golf course, nursery, livestock, improved pasture and agricultural uses need to be renewed to avoid losing the legal right to use this water. Anyone using surface water from Lake Okeechobee or …

Managed Maturity Program

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cotton, Georgia

Eventhough cotton growers are probably familiar with the product AIM, Randy Childress Retail Market Manager for FMC, says that they have a new program use for the popular herbicide. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

New Agricultural Web Site Targeted at Consumers

Randall Weiseman General

The American Farm Bureau Federation has launched a web site targeted at consumers. The site, Your Agriculture, is aimed at educating the non-farming public about agriculture issues, farmers and ranchers and the food, fiber and fuel they grow. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Putnam Discusses “economic recovery plan” & Commish Race

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, General, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables

Central Florida Congressman Adam Putnam was featured speaker at last week’s Peace River Valley Citrus Growers Association annual banquet, and before his address to the crowd gathered for it in Arcadia, we asked for his thoughts on the so-called “economic recovery plan” working its way through Congress, and about his plans to run for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture in 2010. …

Red Ambrosia Beetle Threatens Avocados & Other S E Plant Species

Gary Cooper Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Specialty Crops

The red ambrosia beetle threatens several species of plants important to the southeastern U S according to USDA, including red bay and sasafrass trees in Georgia and South Carolina, and avocado trees in Florida. Hear more in this report. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024