Mike Milicevic of Okeechobee, Florida has been elected as the new Southeast Director of CattleFax. For more information on CattleFax officers and directors visit www.cattlefax.com
Bronson Touts National Ag Day
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services put out this news release today: TALLAHASSEE — Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is joining state agriculture officials across the nation to recognize Friday, March 20, as National Agriculture Day. The day is set aside to celebrate not only the abundant food supply agriculture provides but also the …
What Keeps Farmers Busy?
Everett Griner has looked into this and tells us just what the farmers have to do.
House Bill 529 Making Progress
With the Georgia Legislature in its 10th week Gary Black, president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council, says that one of the important bills that the ag community has been pushing is House Bill 529.
Pork Producers Don’t Support Antibiotics Measure
Legislation introduced in Congress would be detrimental to the health and well-being of pigs, would increase pork producers’ production costs and the price consumers pay for pork and could jeopardize public health, according to the Nation Pork Producers Council..
GA Cattle Ranch Receives Stewardship Award
At the annual Georgia Agriculture Awareness day event held in Atlanta Tuesday, Governor Sonny Perdue awarded the 2009 Governor’s Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Award to Terry Chandler with Stillwater Farms in Madison County.
AL Reminds Producers about GRP Signup
GRP, or the Grassland Reserve Program, is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance grasslands on their property. Eddie Jolley, Conservation Agronomist with Alabama’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, said they are offering the program for two areas of the state. Go to the Alabama NRCS website to learn more about GRP
GA Paint Horse Stallion Confirmed with CEM
Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin reports that lab tests have confirmed a Georgia paint horse is infected with contagious equine metritis (CEM), a highly contagious, but treatable, venereal disease of horses. For more information on CEM click Here
What’s New?
What is new in synthetic fuel? Everett Griner tells us about it.
Beef Checkoff Program Moving Middle Meats
An aggressive beef checkoff market response plan was put in place late last year to help protect beef demand in the meat case and on restaurant menus when early economic signs indicated a need to address consumer purchasing decisions. To learn more simply log on to MyBeefCheckoff.com