The recent move by the U S Labor Department to suspend the rules put in place in January, making the H2A labor program more efficient and workable for farmers, has struck a raw nerve in labor intensive areas of farm country. With only ten days open for public comment, farmers and the folks who represent them are scrambling to provide …
Alabama Celebrates National Ag Day
Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries Ron Sparks has announced that Alabama will celebrate today as National Ag Day encouraging people across the country to remember that our food and fiber begins in the hands of a farmer. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
SAVE OUR CITRUS – Now A Nationwide Effort
USDA/APHIS in collaboration with citrus industry officials and grower representatives from throughout the country has mounted a nationwide multi-media effort to reach those involved in moving citrus plants around. Visit the website at http://www.saveourcitrus.org and hear more about it in this report. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril …
FL Farm Bureau Votes to Join Ag Coalition
(Gainesville, Fla.) – The Florida Farm Bureau Federation will join Agriculture for a Democratic Workplace (ADW), a national coalition of agriculture associations unified to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The EFCA would amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier for employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations. The EFCA would also deny workers their …
Miles and Miles of Pine Trees
One type of the pine tree is near extinction. Which is it? Everett Griner tells us and tells us what is being done to revive it. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds in Florida
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack explains how funds stemming from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act will soon be found in the southeast. Florida Report Alabama Report Georgia Report Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
Georgia Thanks Farmers
As we celebrate National Agriculture Week, Brian Nash president of the Georgia Young Farmers Association, talks about their consumer communication efforts with their Got Food, Thank a Farmer Campaign. For more information about the Got Food, Thank a Farmer Campaign and the Georgia Young Farmers association visit their website. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober …
National Agriculture Week
The country has been celebrating National Agriculture Week and we have a series of reports from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack regarding its purpose and the efforts of USDA to promote the American Farmer. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
GA Agriculture Backing HB 529
Georgia Cattlemen’s Association’s Jim Collins says many in agriculture are watching House Bill 529 currently working it’s way through the Georgia legislature, which is designed to preempt certain local ordinances relating to production of agricultural or farm products. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024
GA Sen Chambliss to USDA:Stop Pitting Farmers vs School Nutrition!
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss says USDA should stop pittin farmers versus school nutrition programs. Here is the news release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and others today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to refrain from using rhetoric that unfairly attacks the farmers …