On the latest episode of Grazing The Facts, Jason Conrad, 2nd Vice President of the Florida Cattlemen’s Association, joins the conversation to share his journey in the cattle industry and discuss the importance of the Beef Checkoff program. Recorded on October 27, Conrad offers insight into the challenges he faced getting started in the cattle business, the influential people who …
The Georgia Beef Board (GBB) has been hard at work promoting beef at several events across the state. Wyatt Doolittle with the Georgia Beef Board is here to tell us more. “It’s been another busy couple of weeks here at the Georgia Beef Board and we’ve had some great opportunities to connect with consumers across the state through two key …
Nearly 1,500 acres of working Florida ranchland will remain in agriculture for generations to come, following a new land protection announcement from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson recently announced the permanent protection of two cattle operations through the state’s Rural and Family Lands Protection Program. The effort preserves agricultural land from future …
Registration for the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association convention is now open. Erin Beasley of the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association sat down with Southeast AgNet to tell us more. “Well, the association is excited that the 84th annual ACA Convention & Trade Show registration is open,” said Beasley. “That event is going to be February 19th and 20th 2027 in Montgomery and we …
Today we’re going to talk timber. The continued decline in pulp and hardwood prices reflect structural changes in the pulp and paper industry, including shifts in product demand, increased use of recycled fiber, the mill modernization, rising wood pulp imports, and also relocation to lower cost regions. These trends have intensified in the past three years, just since 2003-2005. More …
Eight additional meat and poultry companies have joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s voluntary Product of USA Labeling Initiative, bringing the total number of participating companies to more than 30 nationwide. The announcement came on Friday from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. The Product of USA label was designed to help consumers identify meat and poultry products that are born, raised, …
The Natural Resources Conservation Service held their first wetland mitigation banking project back in 1916, but since then NRCS has awarded 41 projects supporting the creation and expansion of wetland mitigation banks in 14 states. The awardees can request up to one million dollars for a project. Projects may last up to four years. When the mitigation bank is established, …
Selling appears to have slowed in the corn trade for now, but the market lacks any catalysts in our view to encouraging buyers to step back in. Midterm election day, finally here, we can be thankful political campaign ads will be disappearing, but also thankful we have a right to cast our vote. Elsewhere, we are watching the corn trade …
Iowa’s transition from eastern forests to the vast grasslands of the Great Prairie created a different set of challenges for early American settlers. Unlike farmers who settled in heavily wooded areas, prairie settlers had to break through thick, tangled root systems, find suitable materials for building homes and fences, and secure fuel in a landscape where trees were increasingly scarce. …
Recently several small and mid-sized meat and poultry processing facilities were awarded funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program. Undersecretary for Rural Development Glen Smith shared the four phases associated with the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program. “Phase one is to support the expansion of new capacity modernization of existing processing operations. Phase …
