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April 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter    Florida citrus and fruit growers wishing to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2022 crop year should do so by April 15, 2022.   Coverage is available for avocado trees and mango trees in Miami-Dade County; carambola trees in Lee and Miami-Dade counties; lemon trees…

April 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter    By J. Scott Angle  [email protected]  @IFAS_VP  When Judi Whitson became the Hillsborough County Farm Bureau executive director in 1991, she was told, she remembers, “to get in touch with Jemy Hinton and make something happen.”  Whitson and Hinton, the UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County 4-H agent…

April 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter    The University of Florida is working on a USDA-funded Best Management Practices (BMP) labeling study to determine if a product labeling program would prompt growers to consider adopting BMPs in their production program. The research team has developed a draft survey and they wish to…

April 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter    Nominations for the 2022 CARES award are open until May 15, 2022.  Florida Farm Bureau has implemented a new nomination process for its County Alliance for Responsible Environmental Stewardship (CARES) program. For more than two decades, the CARES program has recognized farmers and ranchers who…

April 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter    Florida Farm Bureau served as the leading voice for Florida agriculture during this year’s legislative session. The Florida Legislature passed the following top priorities this session: Senate Bill 1000 – Nutrient Application Rates was sponsored by Rep. Lawrence McClure and Sen. Ben Albritton.  Senate Bill 1000…

More than 100 women from across the state gathered for the 2022 Women’s Leadership Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Melbourne, March 24-26. The conference featured keynote speakers, an awards banquet, breakout sessions and farm tours. Keynote speakers included Lorenda Overman, vice-chair of the American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership…

National Ag Day is being celebrated on March 22, 2022 during National Ag Week. It is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundant food supply provided by our nation’s farmers and ranchers. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together to…

The Volusia County Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Leadership Group hosted their inaugural Taste of Volusia event on March 10 at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. “The whole purpose of this event was to highlight Volusia County agriculture and the commodities we produce,” said Dallas Hull, Volusia County YF&R Committee Chair.

Rooted in Community Brenda Gayle Land, Mayo District 2 Women's Leadership Chair "Farm Bureau Women are more than friends, they’re family." Brenda Gayle Land is a farm wife, mother, teacher, leader and friend. She was born and raised in Mayo Florida in Lafayette County to parents T.C. and Evelyn Buchanan.

Florida Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers received top honors for donating 30.5 million pounds of fresh produce and other foods to assist hungry Floridians as part of American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) “Harvest for All” program in 2021. Now in its 20th year, Harvest for All is…

March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter By J. Scott Angle [email protected] @IFAS_VP UF/IFAS recently helped recruit a new Florida Farm Bureau member and nationally known agriculture messenger to Gainesville, and we’ve begun helping her add a distinctly Florida aspect to the American agriculture story. Michelle Miller is popularly known on social media…

March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Florida Farm Bureau and other agricultural leaders joined forces to express opposition in removing Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources from a revamped National Career Clusters® Framework. Through an initiative called “Advancing the National Career Clusters Framework,” Advance CTE, a non-profit agency that works with the U.S.