Commission Charles Bronson honored three recipients for their environmental leadership during the Commissioner’s Ag-Environmental Leadership Awards Breakfast at the Florida Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. The winners were Tornello Nurseries in Ruskin, Saturiwa Conservation Area in Elkton and Arapaho citrus Management in Fort Pierce. Mike Adams with Saturiwa Conservation Area is the first ever forestry management recipient of the award. Download …
FL Ag Commissioner Bronson Formally Endorses Putnam
In a Putnam campaign memo today, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Bronson (photo right) makes his endorsement official: Dear Fellow Floridians, For more than nine years I have served as Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture and experienced the complexities and challenges facing our great state. Agriculture is Florida’s second largest industry and I urge everyone to remain focused on who we elect …
Sparks Discusses USDA’s Citrus Black Spot Quarantine Order
In the first report, Florida Citrus Mutual CEO Mike Sparks provides a broad overview of the new USDA citrus black spot quarantine order. In the second report, he offers some specific regulations impacting growers, harvesters and packers, and says it’s possible regulations could be loosened by early next year. In the final report, Sparks gives credit to many who worked …
Cotton Harvesting Web Tool Available to Producers
Cotton Incorporated recently went live with an information-rich Web site on cotton harvest systems. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay …
FL Producer Using Sunflowers as Alternative Energy Crop
The production of alternative energy crops seems to be the talk of the industry lately and Jeff Pittman of J&G Farms one Florida producer who is delving into the sector by growing sunflowers for bio-diesel. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida …
Updated Nutrient Data Available
Consumers can now easily find out the nutrient analysis of their food through USDA’s updated nutrient database. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For …
FFB President Encourages Members to Vote
The Florida Farm Bureau Annual Meeting is wrapping up today and we recently caught up with President John Hoblick regarding his advice to the members during this very politically charged time. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides …
Big Pumpkins
Everett Griner looks at a world record that might stand a while. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Funding Crucial For Forage DevelopmentMay 22, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding to Enhance Brahman GeneticsMay 15, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026
Cattlewomen Promoting Beef
To kick off a brand new series, brought to you by the Beef Checkoff called “Get to know your Beef Checkoff”, we hear from Linda Crumley with the Georgia Cattlewomen’s Association who told me many of the things they do with consumers would not be possible if it weren’t for the beef checkoff. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board …
Former FL D-E-P Sectretaries: E-P-A Water Reg Delay Not Enough
By KEITH LAING –THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 14, 2010……….The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should extend the period for finalizing numeric limits of pollution in state inland waters beyond the 30 days the federal agency agreed to last month, several former Department of Environmental Protection secretaries said Thursday. In a letter to the EPA, Virginia Wetherell, …