Spring is just around the corner and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama environmental engineer Bill Prices says now is a good time for producers to start preparing nutrient management plans for the year. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle …
Peanuts Will Determine Cotton Acres
At the Georgia Cotton Conference last week, UGA cotton economist Don Shurley provided a look at how cotton might fare compared to other crops this year. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, …
Schafer Interested in Sugar Deal
New Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer says he’s willing to listen to a proposal being floated by US and Mexican sugar producers that would put some controls back on sugar and corn syrup trade between the two countries, controls that were lifted this year as the last part of the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. Report (1:30 …
Deer Composters Make Fertilizer
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida is helping to promote a project that allows deer hunters to use the leftovers from their hunting successes to make fertilizer. They are encouraging hunting camps, landowners and even meat processors to install deer composters, like the one in the picture. More information can be obtained about the composters anywhere in the state …
Senate Ag Chair on Farm Bill
Senate Ag Committee Chairman Tom Harkin says the possibility of reverting to 1949 law is becoming more real as the farm bill process drags on and the administration threatens a veto, but he thinks the Senate could override a veto. Report (1:00 mp3) Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance co-chair Mike Stuart with Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association adds his comments …
GA Congressman Skeptical of Farm Bill Passage
Congressman Jack Kingston of Georgia told growers at the Georgia Cotton Conference last week that he’s skeptical about getting a farm bill finalized. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025
Alabama NRCS Encourages WRP
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama is encouraging growers to take a look at enrolling land in the Wetlands Reserve Program this year. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025
Specialty Crops Waiting on Farm Bill
The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance has been working for the past three years on getting recognition for specialty crops in the 2007 Farm Bill and while their efforts paid off, the bill is still not final. Report (1:30 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, …
Food Check Out Week
This week is National Food Check Out Week, celebrating the fact that Americans have already earned enough disposable income to pay for an entire year’s worth of groceries. Report (1:00 mp3) Florida Farm Bureau is getting the word out through county level events and a statewide broadcast ad campaign. Report 1 (1:00 mp3) Report 2 (1:30 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring …
Growing Hemp for Research
A university is going to grow hemp for research and there are some questions. Everett Griner tells us what one of those questions is.  Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025