Citrus Commissioners Move Ahead On Hopeful “Free Rider” Fix

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

In this report, Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports on another special Florida Citrus Commission teleconference this week to follow up on the one they had last week. Commissioners are wrestling with what to do to possibly try to fix to the “Free Rider” issue. Report (1:11 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida …

FL Cattlemen Supporting IFAS

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Florida

While the work of cutting the state budget continues in Tallahassee, Florida Cattlemen’s Association President Larry Rooks says all of agriculture needs to continue to promote IFAS.  Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer …

Some Citrus S-A-R Answers Could Come Within a Few Months

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

This is our final feature in our series of reports with Dr Jim Graham following up on the recent Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR)seminar at UF’s Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) at Lake Alfred. In this report Graham says he recognizes that growers clearly want to know when they can expect some definative answers about these kinds of concepts and …

USDA Radio News Dept Features Nationwide Citrus Situation

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

On the daily newsline many of us farm broadcasters check daily for appropriate newsclips for our respective regions, we found this feature about the national citrus and citrus markets overview. USDA’s Gary Crawford files the story contained in this report. Report (1:30 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays …

April 2008 UF/IFAS/CREC Citrus Research Newsletter

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Here is the latest citrus industry research update from UF’s Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred. (pdf file) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides Opportunity for Longer Term Research ProjectsOctober 10, 2025

Web Soil Survey Uses

Randall Weiseman Florida, USDA-NRCS

Finding out about soils in a particular area is just a click away with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service on-line Web Soil Survey (WSS), according to Southwest Florida NRCS resource soil scientist Richard Ford. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle …

Another Citrus “Field Trials” Caution

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Another follow up story in this report out of the recent Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) seminar held at UF’s Citrus Research and Education Center at Lake Alfred. While growers all over Florida are hearing talk about private ‘grower trials’ of one type or another, as growers help in the search for answers against ‘greening’ in particular, a lot of pressure …

Bayer CropScience Efforts Helping In ‘Greening’ Battle

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

In this report, comments from Bayer CropScience Regional Sales Manager Chris Payne, updating growers about several key products Bayer offers in the battle against citrus greening disease. We at Southeast AgNet very much appreciate Bayer CropScience as a key sponsor supporting our farm broadcast and magazine publishing efforts for agriculture producers throughout this “deep southeast” U. S. region. Without sponsors, …

FL Promoting Beef for the Future

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle, Florida

Trying to make beef checkoff dollars stretch as far as possible has become a real challenege but Brad Etheridge, Chairman of the Florida Beef Council, said they are doing  the best they can and this includes promoting beef for the future. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays …

FFVA President on Trade

Randall Weiseman Florida, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced the appointment of members to the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade, including Mike Stuart with the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Offers Unique Opportunity For Applied ResearchOctober 24, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Major Role in Applied Beef Cattle ResearchOctober 17, 2025FCEB Recurring Funding Provides …