Highlands County Citrus Growers Association has been working with its County Appraiser’s office to set up a system so as not to penalize growers who remove blocks of trees as part of the Citrus Health Response Plan (CHRP). HCCGA Executive Ray Royce shares the wording of the local rule as it presently stands: HIGHLANDS COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER POLICY FOR THE …
Right To Farm Type Legislation Moving in FL House
In this report, comments from Representative Ralph Poppell about a key piece of agriculture related legislation moving in the Florida House of Representatives so far this Session. Poppell was one of dozens of lawmakers turning out to visit among the crowd at the Farm Bureau Day Legislative Reception in Tallahassee recently. He is Chair of the House Natural Resources Appropriations …
More Responsibility Needed for Food Safety
Tyron Spearman today has information concerning the FDA and how they now are more equipped to handle disease outbreaks after the recent salmonella problem. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida Cattle IndustryFebruary 20, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows …
FL Ag Nuisance Claim Waiver Act
One bill the Florida Cattlemen’s Association continues to follow during the 2009 Florida Legislative session is one that will create the agricultural nuisance claim waiver act. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida Cattle IndustryFebruary 20, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …
Consumers Confident in Beef Industry Efforts
While more than two-thirds of consumers in a recent national survey believe the number of food recalls and food-borne illnesses are on the rise, the results show they are confident in the safety of their ground beef, steaks and roasts. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida …
Beef Exports Doing Well
Despite the world economy right now, even though numbers were down a bit, beef export sales still did very well in January. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted Research for Florida Cattle IndustryFebruary 20, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Allows Viable Research …
H2A Brouhaha Brewing Over Labor Dept Move To Suspend Rules
The recent move by the U S Labor Department to suspend the rules put in place in January, making the H2A labor program more efficient and workable for farmers, has struck a raw nerve in labor intensive areas of farm country. With only ten days open for public comment, farmers and the folks who represent them are scrambling to provide …
Alabama Celebrates National Ag Day
Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries Ron Sparks has announced that Alabama will celebrate today as National Ag Day encouraging people across the country to remember that our food and fiber begins in the hands of a farmer. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board …
Dealing with Abandoned Citrus Groves
One of the many folks we saw at Farm Bureau Day reception in Tallahassee this week was Richard Gaskalla, Director of the Fl Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Industry in Gainesville, (FDACS/DPI). In these reports, he comments on what is being done to help growers and industry deal with the abandoned groves issue. Some grove owners have been less …
Regional Aerial Spraying for Citrus Psyllids Catching On
As you’ll hear in this report from AgNet’s Ernie Neff, and in more features yet to come, more growers in different regions of Florida’s citrus belt are putting aerial spray applicators to work these days. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Targeted …