Here are this week’s cattle market numbers put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AL: FL: GA: Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
FL Farm Bureau “Ag Watch” Tallahassee Report April 17th
Here’s this week’s 4-17-09 edition of Florida Farm Bureau’s Ag Watch (pdf file) from the FFB Legislative office in Tallahassee. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Tobacco Production Rising?
Everett Griner discusses. Not like we once knew it. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
GO GATOR NAMA – AGAIN!
Once again, this time for a second year in a row, University of Florida’s NAMA team has again taken first place in the very prestigious national student competition at the National AgriMarketing Association (NAMA) Annual Conference going on this week in Atlanta. This was just announced moments ago at the Conference. Find a photo of the winning team and see …
4-H Citrus Tree Program Offers Valuable Youth Learning Experience
Earlier this year in late February we participated in a 4-H citrus tree youth project auction in Osceola County, thanks to Jamie Yates at UF/CREC at Lake Alfred (left in photo). Jamie is from Osceola County and was on hand to handle our bidding in our absence. Before I share the rest of this story, I will fall on my …
Bert Harris Property Act Fix Is Needed To Modernize FL Law
More in this report with Dan Stengle, representing the Florida Private Property Rights Coalition, who says due to recent court actions there is a timely need to now tweek and fine tune the Bert Harris Private Property Rights Act so it conforms between legislative intent and these court decisions. Supporters hope the minor changes to the language of the law …
USDA Appointments
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been busy filling out the USDA staff with recent appointments including both Burnham John “Bud” Philbrook and Michael Scuse as USDA’s Deputy Under Secretaries for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
EARLY WARNING ON EQUINE VACCINATIONS
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is sending out an early reminder to horse owners to vaccinate their animals for mosquito-borne diseases, especially in the northern parts of the state which have received significant rain. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Important Tax Issues Abound – At State AND Federal Levels!
A great deal of attention has been focused lately on House and Senate versions of a state budget far apart philisophically yet getting closer to Conference Committee anyway. Meanwhile, as Central Floirda Congressman Adam Putnam reminded us recently at Farm Bureau week activities in Tallahassee, there are some critical FEDERAL budget and tax issues presently on the table as well. …
Greening Trees May Produce Fruit Short Term – But Smaller
Here is a two part series from AgNet’s Ernie Neff featuring comments from University of Florida horticulturalist Tim Spann, discussing some of the latest being learned about fruit produced by citrus trees that are confirmed to have citrus greening disease, or HLB. Spann works out of UF’s Citrus Research and Education Center at Lake Alfred. This citrus news post sponsored …