FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA By JIM TURNER THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 1, 2016………. The House is sticking with a proposal to create a 10-year funding pool only for Everglades restoration, setting up potential negotiations with the Senate on how to spend voter-approved money for land and water conservation. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For Timely …
PMA Brings Fresh Produce Insight to White House Meeting on Trade Policy
From the Produce Marketing Association: Newark, Del. — Global trade is critical to the fresh produce industry, and Produce Marketing Association (PMA) President Cathy Burns brought the industry’s perspective to a White House meeting on global trade policy Feb 29. The discussion among high-level U.S. trade officials and other leaders from across the agricultural sector focused specifically on the Trans-Pacific …
National Corn Growers Association Applauds Senate Ag Committee Action on GMO Labeling
From The National Corn Growers Association: The National Corn Growers Association today thanked members of the Senate Agriculture Committee who voted to stand with farmers and move forward Sen. Pat Roberts’s bill to address the growing threat of a patchwork of state labeling laws and called for the full Senate to Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Acts As Catalyst For …
Urban and Community Forestry Grant Program Now Accepting Project Applications
From the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Forest Service, a division of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, announced today that it is now accepting applications for the 2016 Urban and Community Forestry grant program. The program provides funding to local governments, educational institutions, Native-American tribal governments and non-profit groups for …
EPA Moves to Cancel the Insecticide Flubendiamide
From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a notice of intent to cancel all Bayer CropScience, LP and Nichino America, Inc., flubendiamide products that pose a risk to aquatic invertebrates that are important to the health of aquatic environments. Required studies showed flubendiamide breaks down into a more highly toxic material …
Florida Senators Trim ‘Legacy’ Money for Everglades, Springs
FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA By JIM TURNER THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, February 29, 2016………. Senators have reduced the amounts of proposed funding in a bill that seeks to pay for Everglades and springs-restoration projects over the next decade, as lawmakers continue to discuss how to spread voter-approved conservation money. The Senate General Government Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday backed an …
Georgia Dairy Farmers to Vote to Continue Georgia Milk Marketing Order
From the Georgia Department of Agriculture: Georgia dairy farmers will have the opportunity to vote starting Tuesday, March 1, to extend the Georgia Milk Marketing Order for an additional three years. The current order was approved by producer vote in 2013, and will expire June 30, 2016. Federal law requires U.S. dairy producers to pay $0.15 cents per hundredweight into …
Scott Declares Emergency in Lake Okeechobee Discharges
From: The News Service of Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order Friday declaring a state of emergency for counties impacted by the ongoing discharge of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries. The order, which called on the Obama administration to fund repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding the lake, authorizes Florida …
Soil Health Institute Appoints Inaugural Members to Board of Directors
From the Soil Health Institute: RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Feb. 25, 2016) – The Soil Health Institute marked a milestone today in the organization’s efforts to bring world-class leaders together to help improve soil health. The Institute announced it has appointed 13 members to its first-ever board of directors. “Ensuring we have healthy soils is one of the most important, …
Farm Bureau Donations Benefit Hungry Americans
The farm and ranch families of Farm Bureau raised more than $1.1 million and donated a record of more than 48 million pounds of food to assist hungry Americans as part of Farm Bureau’s “Harvest for All” program. Combined, the monetary and food donations also reached a record level of the equivalent of more than 49 million meals. Sponsored ContentFlorida …