Partnering to Enhance Wetlands Easements

Funding from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will be provided through the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership to help conservation partners protect, restore and enhance critical wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle …

Alabama Attorney General Moves to Stop Wotus

From the Alabama Farmers Federation: The Alabama Farmers Federation appreciates Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange for signing on to a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On Tuesday, Strange joined eight other states on the lawsuit that asks a federal court to strike down the EPA’s controversial Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. Farmers have been concerned about the …

Alabama RCPP Pre-Proposals Are Due by July 8

Steve Musser, assistant state conservationist with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Alabama, says funding is being offered through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), but pre-proposals for 2016 are due tomorrow. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida Cattle …

Plant Material Center’s Work Now Involves Cover Crops

USDA’s Plant Materials Center in Brooksville, Fla. has seen a change from what its mission has been in the past. Center Manager Janet Grabowski explains how the center’s work now involves cover crops. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to Develop Preliminary Data For Future Grant ProjectsMay 1, 2026Florida …

Florida Joins Lawsuit Against EPA’s Clean Water Rule

FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA: Florida joined a multistate lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ adoption of a rule that expands federal pollution controls. The lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Georgia, contends that the technical “Clean Water Rule: Definition of Waters of the United States” supplants states’ …

Southeast AgNet This Week: Cotton Acreage Down; Peanut Acreage Up

Today’s issue of Southeast AgNet This Week includes two USDA reports that show certain field crop acreage going in opposite directions: Cotton acreage is down 18 percent while peanut acreage is up the same percentage. Want to learn more? Click here to subscribe and view the current issue. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …

Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black Applauds Efforts to Overturn Burdensome ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule

From the Georgia Department of Agriculture: Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black is applauding the action taken today by Attorney General Sam Olens to join eight other state attorneys general in a lawsuit asking a federal court to strike down a new rule from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Protection Agency that unlawfully expands the federal government’s regulatory reach …

President Obama Signs Trade Promotion Authority into Law

From the American Soybean Association: WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 29, 2015)-Trade promotion authority (TPA) will soon help create and strengthen international trade agreements, opening valuable markets and providing an advantage for U.S. farmers. President Barack Obama signed TPA into law on Monday, June 29, 2015. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities to …

USDA Video: USDA Week In Review June 26

A weekly look at some of the events and activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In this edition of USDA Week In Review, the bats and the bees, saving a hospital, and helping the Caribbean. For more information go to: www.usda.gov www.rd.usda.gov www.ars.usda.gov www.nifa.usda.gov www.fas.usda.gov www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Production ResearchMay 8, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board …

PMA Urges Senate to Act Quickly, Consider Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act

From the Produce Marketing Association: Newark, Del. — Cathy Burns, president of Produce Marketing Association, issued the following statement today in reaction to the Senate Agriculture Committee’s hearing on the potential impacts of trade retaliation as a result of the World Trade Organization dispute brought by Canada and Mexico regarding Country of Origin Labeling for beef, pork and poultry: “Today’s …