Staff members with the Florida Beef Council (FBC) attended the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville last week and were able to sit in on some of the Beef Checkoff Sessions. FBC Director of Beef Marketing and Promotion, DeAnne Maples, explains how much research is needed to determine how these dollars are spent each year. For more information on Beef Checkoff activities in Florida, visit the FBC …
Federal Program Helps Public after Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
With Tropical Storm Fred affecting areas of Florida, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida wants to remind landowners the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWP) may be able to help if your area suffers damage from this or any other storms during this hurricane season. The program can relieve imminent hazards to life and property caused by floods, fires, windstorms and hurricanes. Aid may include …
Livestock Market Report Week Ending 8-13-2021
Here are the weekly livestock market reports for Alabama, Florida, and Georgia for the week ended August 13, 2021, compiled by the Livestock Market News Service for all three states. AL Livestock Market Report: At Alabama Livestock Auctions, for the week ending Aug 13, 2021, receipts at 21 markets totaled an estimated 15,500 head compared to 20,137 last week and …
Livestock Market Report Week Ending 8-6-2021
Here are the weekly livestock market reports for Alabama, Florida, and Georgia for the week ended August 6, 2021, compiled by the Livestock Market News Service for all three states. AL Livestock Market Report: At Alabama Livestock Auctions, for the week ending August 6, 2021, receipts at 21 markets totaled an estimated 20,100 head compared to 17,096 last week and …
ICYMI: Commissioner Nikki Fried Announces FDACS Clean Water Initiative
(Tallahassee, Fla./August 6, 2021) — Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried held a series of events across Florida announcing the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Water Policy Clean Water Initiative, updating and strengthening the Department’s water policies to better protect the state’s natural resources. At stops in Fort Myers, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Pete, and Stuart, Commissioner Fried met with scientists, environmental advocates, and local elected officials to roll …
Assistance Helps Farmers and Ranchers Conserve Natural Resources
Florida farmers, ranchers and forest owners can apply until September 1,2021 for financial and technical assistance from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for fiscal year 2022 funding. Through EQIP, agricultural landowners can receive financial and technical assistance to improve soil, water, air, plants, animals and related resources. Eligible land includes cropland, rangeland, pastureland, private non-industrial forestland and other …
Everglades Restoration Update
(NSF) — A project to remove a section of the Old Tamiami Trail roadbed in a Miami-Dade County section of the Everglades has been finished months ahead of schedule. The completion of the project, which was announced Tuesday morning, will allow more fresh water to freely flow south through the Everglades. The road, which was built nearly 100 years ago, …
DeSantis, Fried Offer Different Takes on Red Tide
(NSF, August 3, 2021/TALLAHASSEE) — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried made appearances Tuesday along the Gulf Coast, offering competing views about an ongoing toxic red-tide outbreak. Fried, the state agriculture commissioner, reiterated a call for DeSantis to declare a state of emergency to help combat the outbreak that has caused at least 600 tons of dead …
Chefs Learning More about Beef at Event in Florida
The American Culinary Federation Annual Convention is taking place this week in Orlando, Florida. A variety of chefs from around the country are on hand for the event, which is being sponsored in part by various state beef councils, including the Florida Beef Council. Chef Robert Hale, culinary and food service director for the Texas Beef Council, is one of those taking part …
Fried Looks to Update Water Rules
(NSF/August 2, 2021) — Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is running to be the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, began a series of appearances Monday to highlight water-related problems including algae blooms and a spike in manatee deaths. Fried said the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Agricultural Water Policy is moving forward with updating “best management practice” rules …