A collection of the top editorial stories for the month of December from AgNet Media’s news outlets.
| Market Facilitation Program Payments Stuck at OMB Farmers thought they’d have more details on the second round of USDA trade-aid payments by now. However, Farm Journal says the payments are still under negotiations. Read more. |
| Extensive Research Indicates Magna Bon CS 2005 Combats Disease! Are you looking for a highly effective way to combat disease for your operation? Magna-Bon CS 2005 works to combat disease that you are enduring on specialty fruits, vegetables, nuts, and citrus! Our copper sulfate pentahydrate in solution formula is OMRI certified and will help you! Click here for more information. E |
| Livestock Haulers Freed From ELD Requirements The U.S. Department of Transportation officially suspended the requirement that livestock haulers use electronic logging devices (ELDs) in their trucks. Get the details. |
| Why You Should Recycle Pistachio Shells Save those pistachio shell hulls. Cathy Isom tells you why you should recycle pistachio shells. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Hear more. |
| Environmental Group Challenges Shasta Dam Project One of the water projects that California voters approved is about to get underway. Workers are in the pre-construction phase of raising Shasta Dam up near Redding in Northern California , with geologists taking core samples to study the rocks under and around the Dam site. Get the details. |
| Opposite Production Situations This Season When compared to last season’s output, expected orange production this season is dramatically different in both Florida and Brazil. Learn more. |
| Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Inductees Chosen for 2019 Three distinguished leaders will be inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame at the 57th Citrus Celebration Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on March 8 at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. Read more. |
| Specialty Crops of the Andes May Have Potential for the Southeast The Andes Mountains are home to great botanical diversity and are the origin of many vegetable species consumed in North America. Worldwide mainstays such as peppers, cassava, potato and tomato all have evolutionary connections to this area, from which over 200 plant species have been domesticated. Learn more. |
| Florida Native Plants — Tomorrow’s Fruits and Vegetables? Every Florida-grown crop has a long history, and just about all of them have nothing to do with Florida, at least until landing here in recent times. Over the last century, farmers and scientists have discovered ways to adapt various species to perform well in Florida’s challenging weather and pest-ridden climate. Innovations in crop genetics — on purpose or by accident — provide the Southeast U.S. farmer with a profitable counter-season market of high-value specialty crops. Get the details. |