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Looking Back June FloridAgriculture eNews jackpayne@ufl.edu By Jack Payne 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 the [...]
Farm Stands Farm Stand Address (Physical) City Social Media Notes Bob Roth’s New River Groves 5660 Griffin Road Davie Facebook Grow Some Produce – Offer Local Seasonal Produce Southern Fresh Farms 8500 Penzance Road Fort Myers Facebook Grow Hydroponic Produce Buckingham Farms 12931 Orange River Road Fort Myers Facebook Grow Hydroponic Produce Nelson Family Farms [...]
YF&R Toolkit: Education More copy to go here with resource links for this toolkit
YF&R Toolkit: Natural Resources More copy to go here
YF&R Toolkit: Advocacy More copy to go here.
YF&R Toolkit: Community Service More copy to go here
Be the Voice. Live the Legacy | Robert Norman Baker County Farm Bureau, District 3 Baker County Farm Bureau President Robert Norman is part of a community effort supporting local farmers. Baker County Farm Bureau, along with Columbia, Clay, Duval, Nassau and Putnam/St. Johns Counties, have joined together to purchase $39,000 worth of food from [...]
Farm Bureau Counties Give Back FloridAgriculture eNews | May 2020 Giving back is a tradition of Farm Bureau county Farm Bureaus, even amid a pandemic. Multiple county Farm Bureaus have donated to community food banks, helped link farmers and ranchers to local citizens to distribute fresh produce and coordinated various food and peanut butter drives. [...]
Alert! Elections Are Still Coming FloridAgriculture eNews | May 2020 By: Landon Hoffman, Legislative Affairs, Assistant Director With the 2020 legislative session behind us, Florida Farm Bureau can now begin preparations for candidate interviews. As with every election cycle, Florida Farm Bureau, our members and our state’s strong agricultural community have the ability to make [...]
Ag Talk with Jack Payne jackpayne@ufl.edu @JackPayneIFAS By Jack Payne Jack Payne Late last year I called Kenneth Parker to ask a favor. I thought a lot about it before I dialed, because I knew his answer would be yes. It always is. I needed a new Florida delegate to a national grassroots council that [...]
