We spent some time in Tallahassee this week to catch up on the budget cutting process underway in this special session, and what may be expected in terms of further cuts later, in the general session scheduled to get underway in early March. In this series of reports, we speak with three different lawmakers about agriculture and related issues as …
Florida Farm Bureau Hails Arrington Appt as UF Interim Ag VP
(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) Florida Farm Bureau Federation, the state’s largest agricultural organization, today praised University of Florida President Bernie Machen’s appointment of Dr. Larry Arrington (photo right) as interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources. “Dr. Arrington’s 28 years of experience as a faculty member and administrator for UF/IFAS will ensure an orderly transition in the top leadership of …
Budget Cuts Main Focus In Florida Legislature “Special Session”
Cutting the state budget is what it’s all about in the Legislative Special Session now underway in Tallahassee, and sources say much larger cuts likely lie ahead in the regular session set to start in early March. You can hear an overview of the issues from an agricultural perspective in this report as we visit the state Capitol this week …
IFAS Dean Arrington Named UF Interim Sr. V. P. for Agriculture
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Larry Arrington, (photo left)dean and director of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension, has been named interim senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources, UF President Bernie Machen announced today. Arrington succeeds Jimmy Cheek (photo right), who in October was named chancellor of the University of Tennessee. Arrington will assume his …
Citrus Pull – Push Concept for HLB “Greening” Control Measure
HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: In this report, Dr Calvin Arnold, Director, USDA Horticulture Lab in Ft Pierce FL, describes a concept that he says is being talked about more and more as a possible citrus psyllid and HLB control measure. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, …
Citrus Economist: “We Gotta Have the Prices…to Survive…”
HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: While many in the citrus industry are elated that so much money has been made available by the Florida Department of Citrus (FDOC) and other sources to support HLB, or “citrus greening” research, many also remain concerned about the market overburdened with juice in the pipeline and cash prices to growers depressed as a result. …
USDA Hort Lab Director Arnold re HLB Research Progress
HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: In this report hear Dr Calvin Arnold, director of USDA’s Horticulture Research Lab in Ft Pierce FL, discuss his views on the progress of HLB research over the past three years or so since the tree disease known to many growers as “Greening” was discovered in Florida. Among other things, Arnold says there are three …
Special Session in Tallahassee – Important Budget Issues Loom
Lawmakers in Florida are set for a special Legislative Session in Tallahassee for the next couple weeks, and as we look toward the rest of winter and spring we see a busy crystal ball full of ag news coverage from state and national circles. Also in this report, some dates and travel hints for those planning to attend Florida Farm …
SW Florida Newspaper Wows Growers with Citrus Features
Our hats are off to any mainstream news outlet in Florida that takes time to report on one of the state’s most important industries, that of agriculture, once in a while. As a daily agriculture news reporter and farm broadcaster in Florida for 30 years now, it has always amazed me that more major news outlets don’t invest a little …
Grower re Citrus H L B Research: “Still Saying the Same Things”
HLB Conference Coverage Sponsored by: In our continuing series on the recent HLB Research Conference, AgNet’s Ernie Neff catches up to Southern Gardens Citrus VP of Grove Operations, Jim Snively for comments. Southern Gardens, a division of U S Sugar Corp., has been a leader in citrus “greening” research since the start of the problem in Florida. As far as …