Sunbelt Ag Expo Kicks Off with New Technical Seminars

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia

Today is the first day of the 2009 Sunbelt Ag Expo and Executive Director Chip Blalock says that along with their usual full schedule of seminars, demo’s and exhibits they also have a new seminar initiative to prepare producers for next year’s crop. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in …

FL Using In-Vessel Composting

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Dairy, Equine, Florida, General, Poultry

There are currently projects underway in Florida to show how dairy, poultry and horse farms, can increase their profits by recycling excess biomass through in-vessel composting as Cooper McMillan with the South Dade Soil and Water Conservation District, says this is done by using aerobic digestion. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag …

AL Reminds Producers about EQIP

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cattle, Field Crops, Forestry, General, Livestock, USDA-NRCS

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama wants to remind producers about the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) as their Resource Conservationist, John Curtis, talks about some of it’s many benefits. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

Sunbelt Ag Expo Kicks Off Tomorrow

Randall Weiseman Beef, Cattle, Cotton, Dairy, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia, Livestock, Peanuts

Setup by the various exhibitors is well underway today at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia as Gina McDonald, Sunbelt’s Director of Marketing & Public Relations, talks about what’s coming up for the annual event. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

USDA Confirms 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus Present In Minnesota Fair Pig

Randall Weiseman General

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack: “U.S. Pork Is Safe to Eat” WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair submitted by the University of Minnesota. Additional samples are being tested. Sponsored ContentCIR …

NPPC Statement On Testing Of Pigs For H1N1 Flu

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, General, Georgia, Livestock, Pork

Given today’s statement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it is conducting ‘confirmatory testing’ on swine for the novel H1N1 virus, the National Pork Producers Council is reiterating that pork is safe to eat and handle and that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu viruses cannot be transmitted through food, including pork. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture …

Cotton Incorporated Utilizing New Media

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cotton, General, Georgia

With the change of media over the past few years, James Pruden, Director of Public Relations for Cotton Incorporated, says that they are utilizing the internet and social media in their marketing campaigns. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024