Holiday Weather and Carrots

Gary Cooper Specialty Crops, Vegetables, Weather

Not that the two go together in any particular way…It’s just that I decided to pair some weather outlook feature news from USDA this week with some interesting findings from carrot research for these holiday reports. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Agri-View Feature for the Holidays

Gary Cooper Agri View, Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia, Livestock, Peanuts, Poultry, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables

In this edition of Specialty Crop News, a special Agri-View featuring background about Southeast AgNet commentary writer Everett Griner, who is among just a handful of people in the nation who can say he has been in the radio business since the days before audio tape recording was even invented! At 82 years young, Ev has been on-the-air since prior …

Citrus HLB Research Choice Process A Tedious One

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Citrus growers everywhere seem to be clamoring for some research answers to the growing problem of HLB, or “citrus greening disease”. But they are reminded it takes time for research to produce results and therefore patience and good planning is critical throughout the process. In these two reports, some important insight and information provided by citrus grower Peter McClure who …

FL Sod BMP’s Save Money, Water

Gary Cooper Florida, General, Specialty Crops, USDA-NRCS

Florida sod producers now have a Best Management Practices program and a recent field day near New Smyrna Beach showed off what it can mean for conservation and water savings on Florida sod farms. The Florida office of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is a good place to start for producers looking for more information. Hear more in this report. …

HLB Conference of Huge Value to Global Research Efforts

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, International

HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: In these reports, University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center Director Dr Harold Browning, talks about what went on at the recent global conference on citrus HLB disease, and how it is of great value to the research efforts going on right now in Florida and around the world. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide …

Citrus HLB: Report from Dominican Republic

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, International

HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: Speaking with Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff at the recent International Research Conference on Huanglongbing (HLB) in Orlando, FL, Juan Barcello (photo) from the Dominican Republic says recent finds of HLB in his country about 300 kilometers from commercial plantation areas there, frightens him and other local producers there. Hear his detailed comments in this report. …

UF Economist Spreen: Citrus HLB Impact on Future OJ Prices

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, International

In this follow up report to the recent International Research Conference on Huanglongbing (HLB), comments from Dr Tom Spreen, University of Florida economist, about what the impacts of HLB could be to the orange juice market, and prices for both growers and consumers down the road. Interesting stuff here. HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly …

Food & Water Watch: Imports Hurting U S Farmers, Consumers

Gary Cooper Alabama, Citrus, Florida, Georgia, International, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Patrick Woodall with Washington D C-based Food & Water Watch says international trade deals like NAFAT and CAFTA and others involving food often put U S farmers at a disadvantage and U S consumers on the defensive. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

From 200-plus Proposals, 83 Get Funded for Citrus HLB Research

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Grower Peter McClure is chairman of the Citrus Production Research Advisory Council, known to many as the “Box Tax Council”. In these reports, McClure talks to AgNet’s Ernie Neff about how more than 200 research proposals for HLB or “citrus greening” research was narrowed to about 80, and about how National Academy of Sciences involvement is making the whole process …