Food & Water Watch: Imports Hurting U S Farmers, Consumers

Gary Cooper Alabama, Citrus, Florida, Georgia, International, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Patrick Woodall with Washington D C-based Food & Water Watch says international trade deals like NAFAT and CAFTA and others involving food often put U S farmers at a disadvantage and U S consumers on the defensive. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle …

Peanut Exports are Up and GA offers Young Peanut Farmer Award

Randall Weiseman Georgia, Peanuts

Looking at the latest numbers for peanut exports, while not as much as last month, they are still up which is good news for growers. Tyron Spearman looks at those and also talks about a new award put together by the Georgia Peanut Commission called the “Outstanding Young Peanut Farmer Award.” More on peanut exports: GA peanut farmer award: Sponsored …

Trade Agreements Pushed to Next Year

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle, General, Livestock, Pork, Poultry

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says decisions on trade agreements will be left to the new administration and the new Congress to deal with. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025

USDA Offers Poultry Calendars

Randall Weiseman Poultry

As part of its ongoing efforts to educate backyard poultry owners about what they can do to protect their birds against avian influenza, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering free and informative Calendars for 2009. If interested in receiving a free calendar go to this website and click “2009 Backyard Biosecurity Calendar.” Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique …

Job Well Done…As Usual

Dan Agri View

Turkey farmers have done it again. Everett Griner tells us just what they did. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025

Checkoff Funds Veal Program for Consumers

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle

A new veal promotion which started back in October is being funded by the Beef Checkoff Program and it encourages more retailers to highlight veal in their stores for consumers. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity …

GA Beef Industry Not all Gloom and Doom

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle, Georgia

While we seem to hear a lot of negative news Robert Fountain, Jr. a cattlemen from Adrian, Georgia and a representative on the Georgia Beef Board, says it’s not all gloom and doom for the beef industry right now. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied …

Vilsack Praised as Next Ag Secretary

Randall Weiseman General

After President-Elect Barack Obama named Tom Vilsack to be his Secretary of Agriculture, many in agriculture have since been praising the selection. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025

No Impact from Changes in Programs

Randall Weiseman General

Today Tyron Spearman has a story from USDA about findings that no impact has been noted from changes in a couple of conservation programs. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, …

From 200-plus Proposals, 83 Get Funded for Citrus HLB Research

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Grower Peter McClure is chairman of the Citrus Production Research Advisory Council, known to many as the “Box Tax Council”. In these reports, McClure talks to AgNet’s Ernie Neff about how more than 200 research proposals for HLB or “citrus greening” research was narrowed to about 80, and about how National Academy of Sciences involvement is making the whole process …