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. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers …

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.. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune …

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. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers Targeted Application …

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 Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement …

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 Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm …

What’s New?

What is new in synthetic fuel? Everett Griner tells us about it. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers Targeted Application of Herbicides or Beneficials through SharpShooter™June 16, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Resources To Researchers For Applied ResearchJune 12, 2026

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 Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …

AL Producers Reminded about Premise Registration

While the debate is underway in our nation’s capitol over whether to move the National Animal Identification System from a voluntary to a mandatory program, Dr. Tony Frazier, Alabama’s State Veterinarian wants to remind livestock producers that getting your premises registered is very important. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher …

Tracy Fenney wins her third Grand Prix

Tracy Fenney rode MTM Farm’s S & L Willie to her third Grand Prix victory of the HITS Ocala Winter Circuit, taking the blue in the $25,000 HITS Grand Prix on Thursday during final week at HITS Post Time Farm, in Ocala, Florida. Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses …

House Ag Subcommittee Reviews Animal ID

In Washington this week the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry held a hearing to review animal identification systems. Written testimony provided by the witnesses is available on the Committee website: http://agriculture.house.gov/hearings/index.html Sponsored ContentFL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers Growers …