Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is scheduled to speak to the Florida Cattlemen’s Association’s annual convention, which includes a bull auction, a banquet with guest speaker Baxter Black, the cowboy poet, and Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Scott Signs Bills Prioritizing Port Projects For Int’l Trade
TALLAHASSEE – (GOVERNOR’S PRESS OFFICE ) In Miami on Thursday Florida Governor Rick Scott signed two bills that facilitate economic development opportunities by prioritizing Florida’s investment in vital transportation projects, including improvements to Florida’s 14 deepwater sea ports. Improvements to Florida’s ports ensure they are prepared to benefit from the anticipated international trade expected from Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch …
FL Gov Scott to Citrus Growers: E-Verify For Them Would Be Foolish
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA – By DAVID ROYSE – THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, June 14, 2012…….Gov. Rick Scott, who said while campaigning for governor that he would require employers to use the federal E-Verify system to check immigration status, now acknowledges that requiring the agriculture industry to use it would put growers at a disadvantage. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch …
EPA: State’s Everglades Plan Meets Federal Approval
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA – By DAVID ROYSE – THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, June 13, 2012……Federal environmental officials on Wednesday told Florida that a revised state plan to improve water quality in the Everglades meets with Washington’s approval, and said it may meet a federal judge’s order to clean up the ecosystem. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata …
American Sugar Alliance Statement On Sugar Policy Vote in Senate
WASHINGTON—The American Sugar Alliance issued the following statement about today’s vote by the United States Senate to table, or kill, a Farm Bill amendment offered by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to eliminate America’s no-cost sugar policy. “Amidst political bickering over procedural issues, the Senate today voted Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag …
Judge Upholds Florida DEP Water Quality Rules vs EPA “Criteria”
By MICHAEL PELTIER – THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA – THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, June 7, 2012……….State environmental regulators acted properly late last year when they enacted water quality standards less rigid than specific federal numeric requirements, an administrative law judge ruled Thursday in a closely watched case. Rejecting arguments from a coalition of environmental groups, Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch …
U.S. Senate Votes to Proceed to 2012 Farm Bill
Senate Ag Committee News Release Says Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act Cuts Subsidies, Reduces Deficit, Creates Jobs… Washington, DC (Senate Agriculture Committee) – The U.S. Senate cleared a procedural hurdle today and voted to proceed to consideration of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012 (the Farm Bill), with strong Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed …
A Look Into the Consumer Mindset: FL NAMA Hosts ‘Lunch N Learn”
The Florida Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association (Florida NAMA) invites ag industry leaders and communications professionals to the July 11 luncheon program near Palm Beach featuring a report on what Florida consumers really think about agriculture, its people and its products. For registration details and contact information, please simply click to Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata …
Scientists Succeed In Mapping Genetic Makeup of Tomato Plants
The folks who breed new varieties of tomato plants will soon have the tools they need to make tomatoes better for farmers and for consumers. In this report, USDA reporter Gary Crawford talks with USDA Chief Scientist Catherine Woteki who says that success in mapping the genetic makeup of tomato plants could eventually bring consumers more of what they say …
Young Sugar Farmers Tell Congress Sugar Policy Key To Their Future
WASHINGTON (American Sugar Alliance) — If the no-cost U.S. sugar policy were weakened or eliminated during Senate consideration of the Farm Bill, young sugar producers would exit the business and jeopardize future domestic supplies, a group of sugar farmers and lenders under the age of 35 told Senators in a letter today. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata …