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November FloridAgriculture e-Newsletter Jared Smith Flagler County Farm Bureau, District 4 Jared Smith may be the new Flagler County Farm Bureau President but he is certainly not new to the Florida Farm Bureau Family. Smith grew up in Hastings on his family’s sixth generation farm. His father and granddad both…

December FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Every cycle, American Farm Bureau partners with the states to evaluate and consider members of Congress who have supported our agricultural priorities, through their voting records and other means. The following 13 members of the Florida delegation were designated as Friends of Farm Bureau for the 116th…

October FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Jessica Bright McMullen is a chef who works closely with the farmers in the Tallahassee region, using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. While in Tallahassee in December to attend Florida Farm Bureau Day, the Duval County Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee had a chance to learn…

October FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Rex Clonts, Seminole County Farm Bureau President Fifth generation Floridian, Rex Clonts, comes from a long line of vegetable farmers in Central Florida. He and his wife, Denise, own and operate “BigDaddy’s Farm,” named after Rex’s grandfather, in Seminole County. BigDaddy’s Farm raises over 80 different vegetables…

FloridAgriculture eNewsletter September 2020 Glenn Whitworth, Jr., President Palm Beach County Farm Bureau Palm Beach County Farm Bureau President Glenn Whitworth, Jr. has deep roots in South Florida agriculture. The seventh generation Floridian and third generation farmer has a goal to help change the modern food system into something that…

FloridAgriculture eNews, August 2020 Martin County Farm Bureau (MCFB) President Reed Hartman has had a connection to American agriculture as long as he can remember. “When I was little, I remember my dad taking me to different agricultural events and my first job was walking beans and baling hay on…

Jeff Williams Highlands County Farm Bureau President Jeff Williams was elected as the new Highlands County Farm Bureau (HCFB) President at the county’s annual meeting last fall. He and his family own and operate W A Williams Citrus Nursery, Inc. in Highlands County. The third generation farmer comes from a…

June FloridAgriculture eNews [email protected] By Jack Payne Ten years ago, the UF/IFAS beef teaching unit’s structures were condemned as uninhabitable. Our pollinator research headquarters was an oversized closet. We were sifting through what the world had learned about HLB over the previous century and found astonishingly little. We didn’t have…

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