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Georgia Beef Producers Approve the Continuation of Georgia’s Beef Commission Assessment

Dan August 8, 2023 Agri-Business, Beef, Cattle, Georgia

(GDA/Atlanta, GA/August 8, 2023) — Today, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper announced that Georgia’s beef producers approved a continuation of a one-dollar market order assessment, which helps support the Georgia Beef Commission. Voting on the assessment continuation occurred in June of 2023 and passed with eighty-two percent support of beef producers. The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) administers the fourteen farmer-funded …

June 30 is Deadline to Vote on Continuation of Georgia Beef Commission Check-Off

Dan June 22, 2023 Beef, Cattle, Economy, Georgia

Beef producers across Georgia are being reminded that June 30, 2023 is the final day to get your votes in for the continuation of the Georgia Beef Commission Check-Off. The Georgia Agriculture Commodity Commission for Beef was established in 2013 by the Georgia Legislature, and then Georgia beef producers first voted in 2014 to approve a marketing order. It established …

Five-Year Strategy for Fruit Flies Announced
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has released its Fruit Fly Exclusion and Detection Program Strategy. The plan covers the period of 2024 to 2028. The agency called the document “a unified roadmap” for protecting American agriculture from the threat of invasive fruit flies. USDA APHIS worked with […]
Finger Lime Field Day Draws Mostly Non-Citrus Crowd
Only a few Florida commercial citrus growers were on hand for an April 24 finger lime field day at the Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC) in Lake Alfred. Most of the more than 40 attendees did not own citrus groves, and about half were women — definitely not the standard crowd for a CREC […]