FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The Florida State Horticultural and Florida Soil and Crop Science Societies will hold their joint, annual meeting June 1 through 4, 2008 at the Ft. Lauderdale Marriott North hotel, located at 6650 North Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Don’t miss our Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida …
Emerging Technologies In Citrus Production Field Day Reports
Southeast AgNet/Citrus Industry Magazine Editor Ernie Neff files both these reports from this week’s emerging technologies field day in Immokallee FL. Stay tuned, we’ll have more features about these technologies in reports to come. Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded …
FL NRCS Helps Small Specialty Crop Growers
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida is helping small specialty crop farmers become more efficient. One small grape grower on the Florida panhandle has been nominated for the Lloyd Wright small farmer award since she consulted with NRCS. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …
Last Two Weeks of Florida Legislative Session
The 2008 Florida Legislative Session is down to its final two weeks and Ben Parks of Florida Farm Bureau says budget negotiations will now begin in earnest. Report (1:00 mp3) Parks says things will start moving much more quickly now. Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle …
Citrus Expo in August Good Timing for Greening Updates
In these reports, comments from University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC)Director Dr Harold Browning (in photo), about Citrus Expo grower seminar planning currently underway. Browning is a member of the Citrus Expo Steering Committee. The committee met today in Sebring to continue the Citrus Expo seminar plannning process. Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) Report (1:00 mp3) …
Scientists to Gather for a “Greening” Brainstorming Session
In these reports Dr Calvin Arnold, Director of USDA’s Horticulture Lab in Ft Pierce, FL, discusses this week’s gathering of scientists from all over the country to discuss greening and canker. Among those expected are teams from USDA’s SWAT Team and scientists from the National Academy of Sciences thanks to a recent investment by the Florida Department of Citrus. Report …
FL Legislature Looks at Greenbelt
During the Florida Legislative Session this week an issue that came up concerns Greenbelt. But Florida Cattlemen’s Association’s Sam Ard says this time it’s something that will benefit many producers across the state.  Report (1:00 mp3) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers …
Florida Farm Bureau’s Tallahassee “Ag Watch”
Here’s Florida Farm Bureau’s legislative Ag Watch April 18, 2008 (pdf file) Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers Targeted Application of Herbicides or Beneficials through SharpShooter™June 16, 2026
FDOC Retail Initiatives Engage Nation’s Largest Retailers
In this week’s Florida Department of Citrus features, it’s a focus on retail marketing and communications initiatives. In these reports, FDOC Director of Retail Communications Pete Palmer describes the history about how this effort got started, and how working directly with management teams of the nation’s largest retailers, providing them information from FDOC marketing research efforts, is helping these retail …