Southeast Beef Bytes6

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Dairy, Florida, Georgia, Livestock

It’s week six in our Southeast Beef Bytes series funded by the National Beef Checkoff, as we continue conversations with producers from around the Southeast about the checkoff. This time around we are in Gray, Georgia where Billy Moore has been involved in the cattle industry for many years and said the beef checkoff has definitely been an asset to …

Cattle Feedlot Inventories Keep Shrinking

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Florida, Georgia, Livestock

USDA released their monthly Cattle on Feed report last Friday which shows the number of cattle and calves on feed for slaughter in the U.S. totaled 10.4 million head on June 1 which is 4 percent below last year. USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam said the numbers of cattle will continue to diminish until the conditions are right for producers …

So Gardens Plants 1st Comercial Field Trials of Resistant Citrus Trees

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida, General

This release in today from Southern Gardens Citrus, Clewiston, FL, June 22, 2009 – Southern Gardens Citrus has planted the first research field trials of potential canker and greening disease-resistant citrus trees in its Hendry County citrus groves. The trees, noted to be resistant to canker and greening in the lab, were planted in small plots to determine if the …

FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program

Randall Weiseman FL Commissioner Report, Florida, Forestry

This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is about the Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Cost-Share Program, which offers partial cost reimbursement to eligible landowners for pre-commercial thinning, prescribed burning, planting longleaf pine, and mechanical underbrush treatments … and an incentive payment for conducting a first pulpwood thinning. Information on how to apply to the program is available …