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 Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, …
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 Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle …
SAVE OUR CITRUS – Now A Nationwide Effort
USDA/APHIS in collaboration with citrus industry officials and grower representatives from throughout the country has mounted a nationwide multi-media effort to reach those involved in moving citrus plants around. Visit the website at http://www.saveourcitrus.org and hear more about it in this report. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director …
FL Farm Bureau Votes to Join Ag Coalition
(Gainesville, Fla.) – The Florida Farm Bureau Federation will join Agriculture for a Democratic Workplace (ADW), a national coalition of agriculture associations unified to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA would amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier for employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations. The EFCA would also deny workers their …
Miles and Miles of Pine Trees
One type of the pine tree is near extinction. Which is it? Everett Griner tells us and tells us what is being done to revive it. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch …
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds in Florida
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack explains how funds stemming from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act will soon be found in the southeast. Florida Report Alabama Report Georgia Report Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult …
Georgia Thanks Farmers
As we celebrate National Agriculture Week, Brian Nash president of the Georgia Young Farmers Association, talks about their consumer communication efforts with their Got Food, Thank a Farmer Campaign. For more information about the Got Food, Thank a Farmer Campaign and the Georgia Young Farmers association visit their website. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril …
National Agriculture Week
The country has been celebrating National Agriculture Week and we have a series of reports from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack regarding its purpose and the efforts of USDA to promote the American Farmer. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …
GA Agriculture Backing HB 529
Georgia Cattlemen’s Association’s Jim Collins says many in agriculture are watching House Bill 529 currently working it’s way through the Georgia legislature, which is designed to preempt certain local ordinances relating to production of agricultural or farm products. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch …