Southeast AgNet This Week: Cattlemen Visit State Lawmakers; Peanut Farm Show Is Coming Up Today’s issue of Southeast AgNet This Week includes an interview about the Florida Cattlemen’s Association’s Legislative Quarterly Meeting, as well as information about the upcoming Georgia Peanut Farm Show. Click here to view this weeks issue. Want more? Click here to subscribe. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, …
Officials Hope Fast Response Will Limit Bird Flu Outbreaks
Last Friday, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed highly pathogenic H7N8 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in southern Indiana. Since then, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health has announced nine more commercial turkey farms in Dubois County have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle …
Ag in Review for the Week Ending January 15, 2016
In this week’s recap of agricultural news from around the Southeast, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explains why TPP is good for American agriculture, what cotton producers might expect here in 2016, how the number of producers renting farmland is increasing and more. To hear weekly reviews subscribe to our podcast: Alabama Florida Georgia Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL …
USDA Confirms Highly Pathogenic H7N8 Infection at Indiana Farm
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service today confirmed highly pathogenic H7N8 avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in southern Indiana. USDA says this is a different strain of HPAI than the strains that caused the 2015 outbreak. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher …
Avian Influenza Update
Waiting and Watching for Avian Influenza Last spring, operations in 15 states were affected by avian influenza, claiming 50 million birds mostly from egg-laying operations and costing the industry $3.3 billion. And many in the poultry industry were watching closely this past fall when the migratory birds started their flight back south again. While 67 cases of high-path avian influenza …
Southeast AgNet This Week
Southeast AgNet This Week: Slight Reduction in Cotton Production; Pleased with Recent Conference Today’s issue of Southeast AgNet This Week includes cotton production numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, as well as an overview of the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference. Click here to view this weeks issue. Want more? Click here to subscribe. Sponsored ContentCIR …
Poultry Producers Don’t Want Bird Flu Vaccine
USDA is stockpiling up to 500 million doses of a new vaccine against avian influenza, yet Bloomberg reports many in the $48 billion poultry industry don’t want it. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL Cattle Enhancement Board Wraps up Funding YearJune 30, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Awarded Researcher Discusses New World Screwworm OverviewJune 19, 2026Verdant Robotics Offers …
Avian Flu Recovery
Everett Griner talks about H5N2 avian flu losses in recovery in today’s Agri View. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026FL 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, 2026
HHS and USDA Release New Dietary Guidelines to Encourage Healthy Eating Patterns to Prevent Chronic Disease
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture: WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2016 – Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia M. Burwell and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today released updated nutritional guidelines that encourage Americans to adopt a series of science-based recommendations to improve how they eat to reduce obesity and prevent chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart …
Farmer Drone Rules
Waiting for lift-off. Cathy Isom explains some of the new rules keeping the latest technology for the farm on the ground. Farmers interested in using unmanned aircraft systems, also known as UAS, or drones, will have to wait a little longer despite the Federal Aviation Administration recent announcement of web-based aircraft registration for drone technology. Download Audio Sponsored ContentCIR …