Highland Precision Ag is very excited to share the 2016-2017 edition of Florida Magazine – your guide to Florida’s farms, forests food and exports. Florida Magazine is published in partnership with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
The United States Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration has issued its 2017 Adverse Effect Wage Rates. See table below.
Waypoint Analytical, Inc. (WP), in Memphis, TN and Highland Precision Ag, LLC, (HPA), in Mulberry, FL, are pleased to announce a strategic alliance in the Precision Ag industry that will enhance Highland’s laboratory testing services.
As the agriculture industry changes to include new farming practices, such as precision agriculture, a new generation of farmers are beginning to adopt the responsibility of integrating these new practices into their operations.
For the Florida citrus industry, time is not on our side.
Huanglongbing, commonly known among growers as citrus greening, has compromised millions of citrus trees all over the world and has only recently made its way to the western hemisphere.
Pesticides. Whenever the word is mentioned, it usually strikes a debate between those who think we should use them and those who think we shouldn’t use them for a variety of different reasons.
When most people think of a farmer, they think of an idealistic pasture, dotted with cattle that are peacefully grazing as a humble family picks fresh fruits and vegetables from their fields.
Farmers markets were the first source of income for many of our grandparents and great-grandparents. After a long week of tending to fields, they’d pack up their pickup trucks and head down to the local market to sell their fresh fruits and vegetables.
On Monday, August 29, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new rules for commercially used, small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) went into effect.
A quick Google search for “precision agriculture degrees” brings up nine colleges with curriculum focused on precision agriculture. With several technologies being introduced into agricultural processes, schools across the country are creating new agriculture programs or adapting their current agriculture curriculum to include new techniques and technologies.