WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Jean Schmidt, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture, held an audit hearing to examine specialty crop programs. This is the third hearing in the series on farm policy that is designed to provide Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The …
Both Organic and Biotechnology can Contribute to Food Production
After a brief dormancy, USDA’s Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture has been ramped back up in hopes the panel can recommend workable solutions that will enhance the ability of all farmers to grow the crops they want in order to effectively meet the needs of their customers. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To …
Specialty Crops & The Farm Bill: “LIVE” Today in Congress!
Specialty Crops will be in focus in a Farm Bill hearing in Congress this afternoon. Specialty Crops are critically important to deep southeast agriculture, especially Florida. LEARN MORE online at the U S House Ag Committee Website, and once the hearing is underway you can tune in LIVE to the testimony too. This Specialty Crops hearing will be a good …
Migrant Problems
Vegetable growers are facing labor problems. Everett Griner tells us why. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management …
National Plant Diagnostic Network Act as First Responders in Ag
New pests, weeds and diseases are constantly threatening American agriculture and that is why the National Plant Diagnostic Network is busy training people on how to be first detectors when it comes to finding and identifying new threats. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out …
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the U.S.-Mexico Agreement
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2011–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement on the agreement signed today by Mexico and the United States to resolve the cross-border long-haul trucking dispute: Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between …
Dept of Labor Continues Labor Initiative on Farms
The Department of Labor is conducting an enforcement initiative focusing on the agricultural industry, beginning in South Florida and continuing up the East Coast. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle …
A Look at Summer Fruit Production
The cotton and peanut crops aren’t the only ones suffering from our lingering drought as Lance Honig with the National Agricultural Statistics Service says the peach crop is down due to the drought as well. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch …
Stink Bugs
This is another bug invasion from Asia. Everett Griner explains. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch …
Biocontrol Methods Being Developed for Greenhouse Tomatoes
A new University of Florida study has found that papaya plants can be used to host a wasp that attacks silverleaf whiteflies, an insect that is a major pest of tomatoes. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement …