Truck and Tractor Pulling is back in Tifton! The Spring Tifton Truck and Tractor Pull rolls into town on Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16 at the American Legion Fairgrounds. Sponsored by the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League and the Southern Pullers Association, truck and tractor pullers from all across the Southeast will compete for Southern Pullers Association Championship …
FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight has Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam talking about about proposed legislation that would move school food and nutrition programs to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. More information is available online by clicking on Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act. To find out what others are saying about the proposed legislation, click on What …
Citrus ‘Old Timers’ Learn Label History, Share Their Stories
More than 50 ‘mature citrus mentors,’ or ‘old timers,’ gathered for an annual luncheon in Tavares last week. The first report offers an overview of the gathering. In the following reports, meeting speaker Jim Ellis briefly recounts the history of citrus labels and shares some of his earliest citrus memories. Southeast AgNet interviewed several other mature citrus mentors at the …
La Niña
Everett Griner explains how climatologists are seeing changes coming soon. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026
Asian Citrus Psyllid Genome Poster Available Online
USDA scientists have recently finished sequencing a draft of the Asian citrus psyllid genome. See a poster about the psyllid genome here. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley …
Weekly Livestock Market Report
Here are the cattle market numbers for the week ending April 1st put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. AL: Download Audio FL: Download Audio GA: Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, …
Evaluating the FL Legislative Session at its Midpoint
The Florida Legislative Session is at its midway point and House Ag Policy Chair, Steve Crisafulli updates us on the progress so far and what to expect for the remainder of the session. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle …
The Rest of the Story Behind Rising Food Prices
Food prices may be up, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack explains that the reason for the increases is not a simple one. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers of Florida Director Encouraged About the FutureMarch 27, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, …
Earn a CEU from Citrus Industry Magazine
The April issue of Citrus Industry magazine offers readers an opportunity to earn one Core continuing education unit (CEU) by reading citrus Extension agent Tim Gaver’s “Pesticide stewardship: your responsibility to the environment” and passing the accompanying test. Earn your CEU here. This is the second in a series of four CEU articles that will be available from Citrus Industry …
FL Plans Would Rein in Water Districts
By MICHAEL PELTIER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 31, 2011……Lauded – and criticized – for their fiscal autonomy, water management districts would find their budgets determined by the Legislature and their spending approved by the governor under a pair of bills advancing Thursday in the House and Senate. More immediately, the districts would see their budgets …