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Agriculture Department breaks ground on new $208 million Tallahassee lab, office complex

Local and state leaders broke ground Tuesday for a new $208 million Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) complex in Tallahassee, celebrating it as a revolutionary step ...

Crippling Florida freezes cost over $3 billion in estimated losses to agriculture

Crippling winter freezes deal harsh billion-dollar blow to Florida's booming agriculture industry. A recent report details ...

USDA issues disaster declaration for Florida after $3.1 billion in winter freeze damage

The U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary signed a disaster declaration on Wednesday, making federal aid possible to ...
WUFT

Florida agriculture is facing an 'unprecedented financial strain'

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Wilton Simpson on Thursday estimated the damage from Hurricane Milton alone at well over $1 billion. (Photo courtesy of Florida ...
WCTV

Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services breaks ground on new facility in Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson and others broke ground on the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ new, state-of-the-art facility in ...
Florida Phoenix

Farm bill, stripped of food libel language, is headed to the governor

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services package, amended and defended, is on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
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Florida agriculture takes big hit after multiple winter freezes

The Florida Department of Agriculture estimates more than $3 billion has been lost in multiple areas of agriculture, with sugar cane being hit the hardest.
E&E

Florida ag department bill would allow for sale of conservation land

The law change would not apply to state forests, parks or wildlife management areas. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson is backing legislation that calls for selling state ...
Action News Jax

FL Ag Dept. to boost food banks amid shutdown as Democrats urge governor to provide direct aid

Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture is putting together a plan to help food banks amid the government shutdown. The announcement comes as roughly three million Floridians will only receive about ...
Yahoo

Florida Department of Agriculture arrests woman who runs Putnam County animal sanctuary for fraud

Edna West, 61, who runs Rooterville A. Sanctuary, was arrested on 7 felony counts. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement said West used $246,475 ...
Business Insider

3 major hurricanes in the last 13 months did billions of dollars of damage to Florida's farmlands — and that was before Milton

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Southwest Florida's growing zones shift north as planet warms; so do half of rest of U.S.

The Department of Agriculture updated its searchable map of the country that shows how much average low temperatures have changed during the last 30 years, and half the country's lows were higher by 5 ...