You may be seeing peanut advertisements during the current NCAA Tournament as Tyron Spearman talks about how certain companies are using this venue while also reminding us all about a big peanut festival coming up this weekend. Promotion: Download Audio Festival: Download Audio
Home Gardening
Home gardening is the highest since WWII. Everett Griner tells us why. Download Audio
Bayer CropScience to acquire US-based Hornbeck Seed Company
Monheim, March 23, 2011 – Bayer CropScience announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Hornbeck Seed Company Inc. (HBK), a privately-held company headquartered in DeWitt, Arkansas, USA. Hornbeck is a seed company supplying soybean, rice, and wheat varieties in the southern US-market, with an in-house soybean breeding program and proprietary soybean germplasm. Bayer CropScience will acquire …
GCC Educating Consumers at GA Ag Awareness Day and Beyond
Karen Nikitopoulos, communications program manager with the Georgia Cotton Commission, recently had the opportunity to educate school children and lawmakers alike during Georgia’s Ag Awareness Week kick-off event. Download Audio
FFB Updates Issues Briefs on Website
In an effort to keep it’s members informed the Florida Farm Bureau’s Agricultural Policy Division has put together eight new issue briefs on important topics facing our state and industry. Download Audio
Budgets Cuts to Hurt Peanut Research & No Change to Peanut Posted Price
Budget cuts are a major topic not only for local and state governments but on a national basis as Tyron Spearman looks at one area that will be hit hard should these cuts take place along with an update on this week’s peanut pricing information. Research: Download Audio Pricing: Download Audio
Farm Tours
There is a new concept to food production. Everett Griner tells us what this is. Download Audio
Trying to Tone Down EPA & Giving the Skinny on Nuts
Today Tyron Spearman looks at efforts that have been underway in our nation’s capitol to help tone down things with the EPA along with providing information about a new promotion put together by the National Peanut Board. Washington: Download Audio Promotion: Download Audio
AL Hosting Agricultural Landscapes Forum
Farmers, natural resources managers, researchers and academics from across the Southeast are among those providing comments at the Agricultural Landscapes Southern Regional Meeting today at the Alabama 4-H Center in Columbiana. I talked with Sheldon Jones, Vice President of the Farm Foundation and organizers of the meeting, as to the purpose of this event. Download Audio
Future Farmers
Today Everett Griner looks at how education and encouragement are big factors to farming future. Download Audio