Applicator course classes, 1-mile training track tout safety
The first three classes of students enrolled in the Applicator Training Course at the new Asmark-AGCO Applicator Training Center have recently graduated, earning certification as properly trained, professional applicators.
The anti-dicamba movement is gaining strength with new complaints from farmers in multiple states coming into agriculture offices daily. The number of complaints is likely to spike again after harvest begins.
Southeast agriculture takes a blow from hurrican Irma
A Florida industry already struggling from the effects of citrus greening disease took another major blow when Hurricane Irma traveled up the entire length of the state Sept. 9-10.
Listening session, hurrican draw Perdue back to Georgia
Shortly before the arrival of Hurricane Harvey, the USDA was preparing for the potential plights of farmers and ranchers in Texas. This same resolve extended as Hurricane Irma became an unwelcome guest in Florida and across much of the Southeast’s farming areas.
Farmers who were expecting to see the best cotton crop in more than a decade are devastated after Hurricane Harvey swept through the southern United States.
