Here’s this week’s 3-20-09 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
Highlands Enlists Help of Appraisers on Abandoned Citrus Groves
Highlands County Citrus Growers Association has been working with its County Appraiser’s office to set up a system so as not to penalize growers who remove blocks of trees as part of the Citrus Health Response Plan (CHRP). HCCGA Executive Ray Royce shares the wording of the local rule as it presently stands: HIGHLANDS COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER POLICY FOR THE …
Right To Farm Type Legislation Moving in FL House
In this report, comments from Representative Ralph Poppell about a key piece of agriculture related legislation moving in the Florida House of Representatives so far this Session. Poppell was one of dozens of lawmakers turning out to visit among the crowd at the Farm Bureau Day Legislative Reception in Tallahassee recently. He is Chair of the House Natural Resources Appropriations …
FL Ag Nuisance Claim Waiver Act
One bill the Florida Cattlemen’s Association continues to follow during the 2009 Florida Legislative session is one that will create the agricultural nuisance claim waiver act. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Consumers Confident in Beef Industry Efforts
While more than two-thirds of consumers in a recent national survey believe the number of food recalls and food-borne illnesses are on the rise, the results show they are confident in the safety of their ground beef, steaks and roasts. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
H2A Brouhaha Brewing Over Labor Dept Move To Suspend Rules
The recent move by the U S Labor Department to suspend the rules put in place in January, making the H2A labor program more efficient and workable for farmers, has struck a raw nerve in labor intensive areas of farm country. With only ten days open for public comment, farmers and the folks who represent them are scrambling to provide …
Dealing with Abandoned Citrus Groves
One of the many folks we saw at Farm Bureau Day reception in Tallahassee this week was Richard Gaskalla, Director of the Fl Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Industry in Gainesville, (FDACS/DPI). In these reports, he comments on what is being done to help growers and industry deal with the abandoned groves issue. Some grove owners have been less …
Regional Aerial Spraying for Citrus Psyllids Catching On
As you’ll hear in this report from AgNet’s Ernie Neff, and in more features yet to come, more growers in different regions of Florida’s citrus belt are putting aerial spray applicators to work these days. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
SAVE OUR CITRUS – Now A Nationwide Effort
USDA/APHIS in collaboration with citrus industry officials and grower representatives from throughout the country has mounted a nationwide multi-media effort to reach those involved in moving citrus plants around. Visit the website at http://www.saveourcitrus.org and hear more about it in this report. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril …
FL Farm Bureau Votes to Join Ag Coalition
(Gainesville, Fla.) – The Florida Farm Bureau Federation will join Agriculture for a Democratic Workplace (ADW), a national coalition of agriculture associations unified to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA would amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier for employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations. The EFCA would also deny workers their …