The Farm Bill Conference Committee is scheduled to meet today and make some decisions. Committee chairman Tom Harkin says he’ll call for votes if there’s no agreement on the tax package and how to pay for a 10-billion dollar spending increase for the bill. According to Harkin – if there’s no deal on a new farm bill by Thursday – …
Getting the Most from Fertilizer
As fertilizer costs increase and farmers consider cutting back on that important input for their crops, Specialty Fertilizer Products offers two products – Avail for phosphorus and Nutri-Sphere N for nitrogen that can help. Find out more at specialtyfertilizer.com or from any Southern States Cooperative. Report(1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed …
Stocking Up on Fungicide
If you stock up early you will be glad. If not, you might not find what you need. Everett Griner talks about just how this is going to affect the prices for the consumers.  Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
FL NRCS Helps Small Specialty Crop Growers
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida is helping small specialty crop farmers become more efficient. One small grape grower on the Florida panhandle has been nominated for the Lloyd Wright small farmer award since she consulted with NRCS. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, …
Return Your Census Form
HAVE YOU RETURNED YOUR CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE YET? Doug Kleweno, director of the Georgia office of the National Ag Statistics Service says they are using every means possible to get 2007 Census of Agriculture forms returned. Report (1:00 mp3) USDA NASS Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Web Soil Survey in Alabama
Finding out about soils in a particular area is just a click away with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on-line Web Soil Survey (WSS), according to Alabama NRCS GIS specialist Rich Zellmer. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Conservation Means Every Day is Earth Day
As we celebrate Earth Day this week, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service chief Arlen Lancaster notes the contributions that agricultural producers make to the environment across this land with the help of NRCS. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Last Two Weeks of Florida Legislative Session
The 2008 Florida Legislative Session is down to its final two weeks and Ben Parks of Florida Farm Bureau says budget negotiations will now begin in earnest. Report (1:00 mp3) Parks says things will start moving much more quickly now. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober …
Citrus Expo in August Good Timing for Greening Updates
In these reports, comments from University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC)Director Dr Harold Browning (in photo), about Citrus Expo grower seminar planning currently underway. Browning is a member of the Citrus Expo Steering Committee. The committee met today in Sebring to continue the Citrus Expo seminar plannning process. Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) …
FL Commissioner’s Report on Africanized Bees Show
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson talks about the television feature, “Africanized Bees: Coping with the Challenge,†that will be airing nationwide on RFD-TV on April 23rd at 6:30 p.m. (ET). To view this Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services video production, click here. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed …