Florida NRCS Invites Landowners to Learn More about EQIP

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Citrus, Environment, Florida, Forestry, General, Livestock, USDA-NRCS

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Florida wants producers to know that a sign-up is underway for 2017 funding. Lisa Harper, district conservationist for Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, says this is through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For …

Honeybee Rebound

Dan Agri View, Environment

Everett Griner talks about what has caused the increase of honeybee colonies in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For Research Not Found ElsewhereSeptember 19, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funds Research to Sustain Beef Industry and EnvironmentSeptember 11, 2025

Conservation Easement Preserves Florida Heritage

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Environment, Florida, General, Livestock, USDA-NRCS

While those in the Florida cattle industry are very familiar with the Florida Cracker Cattle breed, others outside of the industry and in others states may not be. But a story from Renee Bodine, with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida, looks at why a modern-day Cracker cowboy entered property into a conservation easement in 2008 with NRCS. Play …

Mason Jar Recycling

Dan Environment, General

There are so many uses for the Mason jar other than just using for pickling sauces and jams. Cathy Isom tells you about the common household item you may already have that will have thinking twice about ever using plastic again. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember …

Beekeeping 101

Dan Agri View, Environment, General

Everett Griner talks about beekeeping now being taught by professionals in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For Research Not Found ElsewhereSeptember 19, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funds Research to Sustain Beef Industry and EnvironmentSeptember 11, 2025

Consuming GMO Crops

Dan Agri View, Environment, Technology

Everett Griner talks about what it will take to show no danger is posed by GMO crops in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For Research Not Found ElsewhereSeptember 19, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funds Research to Sustain Beef Industry and EnvironmentSeptember 11, 2025

Negron to Pursue Money to Buy Everglades Land

Randall Weiseman Environment, Florida, General, Industry News Release, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Water

FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA By JIM TURNER THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, August 9, 2016………. Lawmakers will be asked next year to approve bonding a big chunk of environmental preservation money to support the incoming Senate president’s desire to buy sugar farmland for water storage in the Everglades south of Lake Okeechobee. Sen. Joe Negron, whose Stuart community has been …

Honeybee Problem Identified?

Dan Agri View, Environment

Everett Griner talks about research possibly finding the problem for the honeybee issue in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For Research Not Found ElsewhereSeptember 19, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funds Research to Sustain Beef Industry and EnvironmentSeptember 11, 2025

Honeybee Hotel

Dan Environment, General

Bees are incredibly important to our planet’s ecosystem. Cathy Isom tells us about the creative way one company came up with to give the honeybee Five-Star treatment. That story’s ahead on This Land of Ours. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely ResearchSeptember 26, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities For Research Not Found ElsewhereSeptember 19, 2025Florida …

Honeybee Population Revival

Dan Environment, General

Take a look in your yard, and you might be surprised that you’re missing the very things that bees and other pollinators need to feed on to survive. Cathy Isom has some ways to bring back the honeybee population, starting with your landscape. That story’s ahead on This Land of Ours. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For …