If the new rule stands, the American Farm Bureau Federation says the result will be a wave of new regulation or outright prohibitions on routine farming practices and other land uses.
USDA announces the availability of the funds to state departments of agriculture for projects that help support specialty crop growers through research programs.
Calvin Arnold was recently named director of the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee, returning to the same post he held from 1985 to 1995.