HHS and USDA Release New Dietary Guidelines to Encourage Healthy Eating Patterns to Prevent Chronic Disease

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture: WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2016 – Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia M. Burwell and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today released updated nutritional guidelines that encourage Americans to adopt a series of science-based recommendations to improve how they eat to reduce obesity and prevent chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart …

New Way to Promote Peanuts

The National Peanut Board is now promoting peanuts through Twitter, as Tyron Spearman has the details. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Critical Funding To Enhance Brahman GeneticsApril 24, 2026Strong Relationship Exists Between the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and UF-IFASApril 17, 2026Florida Cattle …

Florida NRCS Helping Ag Producers Restore Wildlife Habitat

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida is reminding landowners that about $50 million is being made available this year in financial assistance for agricultural producers that want to restore and protect habitat for seven focus species. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides …

Agriculture Education

In today’s Agri View Everett Griner talks about requiring agriculture education and training in high schools. Download Audio   Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Critical Funding To Enhance Brahman GeneticsApril 24, 2026Strong Relationship Exists Between the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and UF-IFASApril 17, 2026Florida …

Vilsack Urges Congress to Pass Wildfire Funding Fix

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces 2015 Wildfires Burned Record Acres, Urges Congress to Pass Wildfire Funding Fix Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that in 2015, wildfires burned a record 10,125,149 acres across the United States, surpassing the previous record set in 2006. The Secretary renewed the call for Congress to pass the bi-partisan Wildfire Disaster Funding Act. In 2015, …

Farmer Drone Rules

Waiting for lift-off. Cathy Isom explains some of the new rules keeping the latest technology for the farm on the ground. Farmers interested in using unmanned aircraft systems, also known as UAS, or drones, will have to wait a little longer despite the Federal Aviation Administration recent announcement of web-based aircraft registration for drone technology. Download Audio   Sponsored ContentFlorida …

Value of Beef Checkoff to Producers

In our weekly “Getting to know your beef checkoff” brought to you by your beef checkoff, Don Mulvaney from Auburn, Alabama encourages producers to think more deeply about the value of the beef checkoff. Download Audio To learn more about your beef checkoff, go to mybeefcheckoff.com. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant …

Conversations Continue on National GMO Labeling Law

The American Farm Bureau Annual Convention and IDEAg Trade Show will take place January 8–11 in Orlando, Florida and a topic that is sure to be discussed is GMO’s. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Critical Funding To Enhance Brahman GeneticsApril 24, 2026Strong …

North Florida Farm Tour Coming January 19

Ag producers, natural resource managers and Ag industry in Florida are all invited to attend in a panel discussion concerning the Challenges and Opportunities facing Women, Minority and Veteran Farmers January 19th in Tallahassee. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Critical Funding To …

Florida Peach Marketing Order Vote

From the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: Dear Florida Peach Producer, In April 2015, Florida peach growers petitioned to enact a Florida peach marketing order to cover all peaches produced in the state south and east of the Suwannee River. The state marketing order would establish an assessment based on pounds marketed by first handlers to help support …