FARM RAISED | FARM PROUD Blaire Colvin, Colvin Farms, LLC Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Group Marion County Second generation farmer Blaire Colvin represents counties in district four on the Florida Farm Bureau State Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Committee. The Marion County farm-girl at heart currently co-owns and operates Colvin Farms, LLC with her [...]
Extension Professional of the Year Named Florida Farm Bureau will recognize Bob Hochmuth, Center Director for the UF/IFAS Suwannee Valley Agricultural Extension Center as an outstanding UF/IFAS Extension Professional at its 2017 state Annual Meeting, Oct.30-Nov.1, in Ponte Vedra Beach. The Extension Professional of the Year Award recognizes an Extension Agent who has contributed to [...]
Investing in the Future Clay County Extension Director Bradley Burbaugh and Farm Bureau board member Kelly Mosley on Thursday, July 20th, 2017. As a next-generation Florida agriculture leader, Clay County Farm Bureau board member Kelly Mosley sees vast opportunity in food production careers, and she wants to help the generation behind her see it, too. [...]
FARM RAISED|FARM PROUD Andrew Taylor, Walton County Farm Bureau First generation farmer Andrew Taylor represents counties within District One on the Florida Farm Bureau State Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Group. Taylor is also a board member of the Walton County Farm Bureau and an instrumental supporter of agriculture in his community. Taylor was born [...]
An “Off Switch” to Greening? Nian Wang, an associate professor of microbiology and cell sciences at UF/IFAS, is working with the gene-editing technique called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). CRISPR techniques are being used to generate greening-resistant citrus varieties by modifying the susceptibility genes within the plants. Wang’s system tricks a plant into [...]
Young Farmers & Ranchers State Conference On July 14, young farmers and ranchers from across the state made their way to Punta Gorda to take part in Florida Farm Bureau’s State Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference titled “Hooked on Agriculture.” Headlining speakers included internet sensation Chad Prather, Cody Moran of YNOT Lifestyle, U.S. Congressman [...]
Finalists Selected for Statewide Competitions Achievement in Agriculture Brittany Lee of Florida Blue Farms in Alachua County, Kelly Mosely of Amazing Grace Crop Maze in Clay County and Jimmy Hancock of Hancock Citrus Harvesting in Pasco County are the top three finalists in the Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement in Agriculture competition. The young farmers [...]
Extension Has Always Been a Two-Way Street Jack Payne By Jack Payne @JackPayneIFAS I met Jackson County Farm Bureau board member Mack Glass almost as soon as I started my job at the University of Florida. He welcomed me to the Sunshine State by asking me when I would get an Extension expert in forage [...]
Irrigation Efficiency Workshops Update The St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) held a series of workshops for farmers and ranchers across the District this year. The objective of the workshops was to define a strategy for agriculture to improve irrigation efficiency. Due to increased population and water demand projections, there is urgency for producers [...]
AEST: Meeting the Employment Demands for the Agriculture Community The Florida Farm Bureau Agricultural Certification program, or AEST, prepares students and employees for both careers and advancement in agricultural disciplines. The certification program offers two levels of certification–an associate level and a specialist level. The associate level one demonstrates basic knowledge of agriculture and requires [...]
