HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: In these first two reports, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff (below left) catches up with Southern Gardens VP Jim Snively (photo right) to discuss the company’s news release about field trials beginning for citrus trees they hope will prove resistant to both citrus canker and HLB (citrus greening disease). Snively and other Southern Gardens personnel were …
Citrus HLB Research Conference Provides Lots of Updates
Click and listen to these latest voicer reports from Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff, covering the remaining days of this week’s International Research Conference on Huanglongbing in Orlando. In this first report, Neff reports on two different countries represented at the conference, one where greening has not been found, the other where it was discovered a month ago. In this next …
USDA Wants Specialty Crops Input
The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is requesting comments on proposed regulation changes to the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (TASC). The changes would provide increases for funding caps, project activity duration, and for the allowable number of projects underway at a time. The proposed changes were published in the Federal Register on December 3rd. The Technical Assistance for …
MANA Helping Growers Cut Costs
Current economic conditions are making management and input decisions on the farm tough but according to Brian Ahrens, Northern Regional Manager for MANA, they can help. Sponsored ContentCattle Producers Proud of Efforts Funded Through The Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardMay 29, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay …
New On-line Tool for Dairy Producers
A USDA funded project has led to the development of an on-line tool to help dairy producers with cattle reproduction and increased milk production. For a direct link to the new “Virtual Dairy Cattle Encyclopedia of Reproduction” website, click Here Sponsored ContentCattle Producers Proud of Efforts Funded Through The Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardMay 29, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial …
AL Livestock Market Report
Alabama Department of Agriculture’s Dyan Kennedy has this weeks cattle markets numbers from across the state. Sponsored ContentCattle Producers Proud of Efforts Funded Through The Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardMay 29, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026
HLB “Citrus Greening” Research Conference Reports Continue
Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff continues our coverage of this week’s International Research Conference on Huanglongbing (HLB), the disease also known to many as “citrus greening”. If you’re in citrus, it’s worth the couple minutes each to hear these two reports from Ernie mid week from this conference in Orlando. HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: Sponsored ContentCattle Producers Proud of Efforts …
Greening/Canker Resistant Trees to Be Field Tested at So Gardens
This release from U S Sugar/Southern Gardens CitrusClewiston, FL, Dec 4, 2008: As part of its proactive program to deal with disease, Southern Gardens Citrus announced its plans to plant and field test canker and greening disease-resistant citrus trees in its groves starting in early 2009. Huanglongbing or citrus greening disease (HLB) is considered to be the most serious disease …
What’s the Rush
With harvest going on and planting season in full steam ahead for 2009, anticipating a bumper crop, Everett Griner gives us some information we might need to think about before going to far. Sponsored ContentCattle Producers Proud of Efforts Funded Through The Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardMay 29, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …
John Deere Drive Green Event Underway
John Deere’s program designed to give rural property owners, agricultural producers and other interested consumers a chance to operate and ask questions about the latest models of utility and compact utility tractors is underway across Florida. Their Drive Green Program includes special equipment displays and ride-and-drives at 4 locations across the state this week. One took place in Middleberg Wednesday …