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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Wednesday unveiled the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2007 farm bill proposals. The more than 65 proposals correspond to the 2002 farm bill titles with additional special focus areas, including specialty crops, beginning farmers and ranchers, and socially disadvantaged producers.

Details are available at www.usda.gov/farmbill.

Among the proposals are payment limitations and increased conservation funding.

Conservation Report (1:00 wma)

Payment Limits Report (1:30 wma)

Specialty Crops Report (1:30 wma)

If you can’t attend the Cattlemen’s Beef Board meetings this week at the annual Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show, you can still participate in checkoff-related issues via the web.  Report (1:00 wma) To learn more Click Here

Many cattle producers from across Alabama are in Nashville for the 2007 Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show.  Report (1:00 wma)

Many cattle producers from across Florida are in Nashville for the 2007 Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show.  Report (1:30 wma)   

Many cattle producers from across Georgia are in Nashville for the 2007 Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show.  Report (1:00 wma)

Cattlemen from across the country are in Nashville this week for the Cattle Industry Convention & Trade Show. NCBA CEO Terry Stokes says many topics are being discussed.  Report (1:00 wma) To learn more Click Here 

Tyron Spearman looks at who has been appointed to the ag committees from the peanut growing areas.  Report (1:30 wma)

What has farmers baffled and concerned?  Everett Griner tells us and why.  Report (1:00 wma)

Peanut growers have done a great job in adapting to the peanut program.  Report (1:10 wma)

As the county cotton production meetings are being held across the state, one big topic of discussion is weed resistance problems. Randall Weiseman recently talked about it with Stanley Culpepper, UGA Extension Weed Science Agronomist.

Next cotton production meetings are scheduled for:
Feb. 1 - 4 pm - Bulloch County, 6 pm - Candler County
Feb. 2 - noon - Lee County
Feb. 5 - noon - Decatur County, 7 pm - Tift County
Feb. 6 - noon - Ben Hill/Irwin County
Feb. 7 - noon - Colquitt County
Feb. 8 - noon - Cook County, 7 pm - Grady County

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications until Feb. 12 for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program which helps open, retain and expand markets for U.S. specialty crops.

More information can be found at fas.usda.gov.

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All of Florida Farm Bureau’s advisory committees are getting together this week in Gainesville for one of two annual committee conferences.

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Septic systems can also be a common cause of non-point source pollution in rural Alabama and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service urges homeowners to take care of them.

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Florida’s state fair begins on February 8th, and Amy Carpenter from the Florida Department of Citrus discusses some promotions that the FDOC has planned for opening day. Report (1:59 wma)

In this report, Gary Cooper discusses new trapping techniques for the psyllid with Dr. Harold Browning from the University of Florida. Report (1:59 wma)

Everett Griner has checked out the statistics and lets us know just what is taking our farm land and what is going to happen in the future.  Report (1:00 wma)

What does it mean that El Nino is waning? Bart Hagemeyer of the National Weather Service’s Melbourne FL office says it could mean several things. He comments about the 2007 hurricane season outlook in this report. Report (2:00 wma)

Bart Hagemeyer with the National Weather Service office in Melbourne FL, speaking with citrus growers at a seminar in Ft Pierce last week, says the El Nino that came on so quickly last year has not produced rainfall patterns that are typically expected from an El Nino pattern. In this report he discusses rainfall and hurricane expectations as a result of the waning El Nino. Report (2:00 wma)

The results of the Beef Checkoff survey have been released by USDA.  Report (1:00 wma) To see more of those results Click Here

The 16th annual Northwest Florida Beef Conference & Trade Show is coming up this Thursday.  Report (:30 wma)

Flame Engineering was one of the exhibitors at last week’s International Poultry Expo in Atlanta, demonstrating how the power of propane can sanitize poultry houses. Steve Koch is director of Flame Engineering’s agriculture division.

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The discovery of a lone orange cauliflower in a field of the ordinary white variety 30 years ago is helping scientists isolate the beneficial beta carotene gene which provides Vitamin A.

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Farm Bureau Federation is urging support on both the state and national level for research and development of cellulosic ethanol.

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A break from hurricanes last year helped USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida get caught up on recovery projects resulting from hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.

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Everett Griner looks into this and gives us his outlook on it and the impact on the dairy business.  Report (1:00 wma)

Here’s the latest map of citrus greening in Florida (pdf file)Growers who have questions can contact the Florida Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry offices in Gainesville.

Citrus growers are encouraged to take a few moments to offer ideas as to how they think canker or greening can be best controlled. E-mail us at growertrials@southeastagnet.com, and then look for your input in this section of the website archives.

An update about the rebuilding of the Florida Citrus Nursery industry and some of the new regulations making it very expensive and slow in coming. Citrus Nurseryman Nate Jamison was president of the Citrus Nurserymen’s Association during the times of hurricanes and canker eradication efforts in recent years. He spoke to citrus growers at a seminar in Ft. Pierce last week, giving several dozen growers in attendance a good update about the situation. We interviewed Jamison just after his talk, hear some of his comments in this report. Report (2:00 wma)

In this report, Citrus Nurseryman Nate Jamison explains that the damage to citrus budwood stocks from the years of hurricanes and canker spread is a major factor delaying the rebuilding of the citrus nursery industry in Florida. Report (2:00 wma)

USDA released the January Cattle on Feed report this afternoon which shows on feed numbers are up another one percent.  Report (:30 wma) To view more of the report Click Here

In this week’s pod cast,President Bush addresses agriculture in his State of the Union Address, Ethanol will be good for Florida Agriculture, Premise registration for Animal ID is very important, 2006 conservations was great for the state, and Bob Greene talks about Florida grapefruit.
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