Ag Tourism

Dan Agri View, Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia

Everett Griner tells us there is more than people think. 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

Additional Signup for Precision Farming Incentive

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Field Crops, USDA-NRCS

State Conservationist Dr. William Puckett with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced June 19, 2009, as the cutoff date for an additional signup for the new Precision Farming Incentive under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Applying for EQIP is continuous; however, selecting applications for funding is completed periodically through batching periods with specific cutoff dates. Sponsored ContentFCEB …

Timeline Declared on Controversial Climate Change Legislation

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Energy, Florida, General, Georgia

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has placed a deadline on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s action on the climate change legislation, HR 2454, with a June 19th deadline. 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

Purpose of Organic Survey

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan explains the purpose behind USDA’s first ever organic production survey. 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

AL Watershed Projects Receive Funding

Randall Weiseman Alabama, USDA-NRCS

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA will provide nearly $42.3 million in additional funding to 14 states to improve water quality, increase water supply, decrease soil erosion, and improve fish and wildlife habitat while creating jobs in rural communities as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer …

Food Safety Enhancement Act & Looking at Late Peanut Varieties

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Peanuts, Specialty Crops

Today Tyron Spearrnan has information concerning the Food safety Enhancement Act along with the variety selections that growers need to be thinking about if stll trying to get peanut seed in the ground. Safety Act: Varieties: Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances Forage ResearchOctober 3, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board …

Soybean Comeback

Dan Agri View, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Soybeans

Research brings bigger yields and Everett Griner tells us about it today. 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

Weekly Livestock Market Reports

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cattle, Florida, Georgia, Livestock

Here are the cattle market numbers for the week ending June 5th put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. AL: FL: GA: 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 …

Water Wars Continue

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Specialty Crops

Water continues to be a hot button issue as these two reports exemplify. The tri-state battle over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system that has raged since 1990 continues. A federal appeals court reinstated Florida water managers’ right to pump polluted water into Lake Okeechobee. Sponsored ContentFCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Advances …

Letter to Secretary Regarding Cap and Trade Legislation

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Energy, Florida, General, Georgia

There is growing concern in the Ag sector regarding proposed climate change and energy legislation. 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