Your Land Grant Partner: J. Scott Angle March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter By J. Scott Angle jangle@ufl.edu @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 [...]
Florida Farm Bureau and Ag Community Leaders Rally to Keep Agricultural Education 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 [...]
Farm Women Recognized for Sharing Ag’s Story Florida women representing 16 county Farm Bureaus will receive the Women’s Activity Award Thursday, March 24, at the Florida Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Conference Awards Banquet from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Melbourne. Recipients of the award will be recognized for their contributions [...]
Young Farmers and Ranchers Combat Hunger with 30.5 Million Donated Meals March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter 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 The Community: District 3 Young Farmers and Ranchers Recruit Area Members March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Young farmers and ranchers from District 3 gathered at Promised Land Ministries Farm in Lake Butler on Feb. 12 to network and fellowship. Attendees heard from state Farm Bureau leaders about the importance and value of the Florida Farm [...]
National Ag Day March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter 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 [...]
CARES Program Implements New Nomination Process March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Florida Farm Bureau has implemented a new nomination process for the County Alliance for Responsible Environmental Stewardship (CARES) program. For more than two decades, Farm Bureau’s CARES program has recognized farmers and ranchers who demonstrate exemplary environmental stewardship to protect Florida’s natural resources. This [...]
Rooted in Resilience: Brandt and Samantha Hendricks March 2022 FloridAgriculture eNewsletter Brandt and Samantha Hendricks represent counties in District 1 on the Florida Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers State Leadership Committee. Counties include Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Jackson, Washington, Bay, Calhoun and Gulf. Brandt is a third generation farmer from Jay. His [...]
