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July 20, 2020 By: Staff PR Tallahassee, Fla. — The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) is encouraging Florida’s horse community to be vigilant of Eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE), a serious viral disease that can affect horses, birds, and humans and cause neurological injury and death. FDACS officials recently…
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June 14, 2020 By: Staff Report Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a major case on a state law that punishes local government officials who pass local gun safety ordinances. A circuit court judge had previously found the state law unconstitutional.…
Read More Statement by Commissioner Nikki Fried on Unconstitutional Florida Gun Law Hearing
July 14, 2020 By: PR Southern Survival TAMPA, Fla. – A new Netflix original series, Southern Survival, has just debuted on the world’s leading streaming entertainment service and features a small business based in Portal, GA. The reality series was born from BATTLBOX, the subscription…
Read More Leading Outdoors & Survival Subscription Takes NETFLIX Top 10 Spot
July 14, 2020 By: Jim Frankowiak TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had added additional commodities to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) along with other program adjustments based on comments received from agricultural producers and organizations and a review of market…
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July 13, 2020 By: Staff Report TAMPA, Fla. – The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is working to connect Florida producers with consumers and businesses to purchase Florida products. In light of recent market disruptions caused by COVID-19, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer…
Read More Florida Farm To You, FDACS Connects Consumers and Farmers
July 12, 2020 By: Jim Frankowiak Florida (Fla.) – The COVID-19 crisis has substantially impacted Florida’s agricultural industry with new challenges on how to protect workers who are essential to keeping our nation’s food supply flowing. The University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences…
Read More UF Surveying Florida’s AG Industry; Seeking Participants
July 12, 2020 By: Staff Report FLORIDA – Farmers and ranchers are invited to submit nominations for the 2021 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year contest, brought to you by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company. The contest celebrates farm dogs who work alongside their people to…
Read More Your Pup Could be Farm Dog of the Year July 2020
July 9, 2020 By: Staff Report Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried hosted a virtual press conference with nonprofit leaders to announce a $100,000 Walmart Foundation grant project to fight food insecurity in Florida’s rural communities. “Despite Florida growing over 300 commodities and…
Read More Commissioner Nikki Fried, Nonprofit Leaders Announce $100,000 Walmart Rural Food Grant
July 8, 2020 By: Staff Report Tallahassee, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced it will award $440,913 to six Florida-based recipients for the Farm to School Grant program. The Florida awardees include the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS)…
Read More Florida Receives $440,000 in USDA Farm to School Grant Funds
July 7, 2020 By: Jim Frankowiak PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – The University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Pasco County Cooperative Extension Service is offering a free “Meet & Greet” mandatory online preview session July 23 for anyone interest in applying for the…
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