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Agriculture

  • Levy FFA members bring home awards

    The results are in for Florida FFA competitions and the Levy County Fair competition and the news is good for teams from Levy County. 

    The CHS Senior FFA livestock judging team, made up of Harold Tillis, Payton Parnell, Kinsey Denee' Ward and Emily Diane Smith, came in second in the 2013 Livestock CDE State Finals. Williston High School came in an No. 8 and Bronson rounded out the Top 10 performances by coming in No. 10. 
    The CHS Senior FFA also placed 10th in the 2013 State Poultry CDE.

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  • FFA Alumni rodeo this weekend

    Local cowboys and cowgirls will be joining the Flying “G” Rodeo Company on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. to put on a show at Brookins Arena at Lotoma Ranch to raise money for the Chiefland FFA Alumni Chapter. 

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  • Saying goodbye

    Chiefland Senior FFA member Tyler Bennett spends a moment with his hog that won Grand Champion Swine at the 2013 Suwannee River Fair Youth Livestock Show and Sale.

    His animal brought $13 per pound in the annual sale held on Wednesday, March 20.

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  • Squeals of a champion

    Lacey Bennett, of Double Sink 4H, won 4th place overall in the Florida State Fair’s Swine Showmanship Junior Division Feb. 9. The State Fair, held in Tampa, closes its 12-day run on Sunday, Feb. 18.

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  • State Fair opens today in Tampa

        The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Florida State Fair Authority are partnering to celebrate 500 years of agriculture at this year's Florida State Fair. The fair officially beings Thursday, Feb. 7, when Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and his fellow Cabinet members will "flip the switch" to illuminate the Midway in Tampa. 

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  • FFA Alumni searching for chili champion

    Anyone who can make chili, including those who think they make the best chili are invited to compete in the Chiefland FFA Alumni 4th Annual Homemade Chili Cookoff on Friday, Feb. 1, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Chiefland High School Ag Building.

    The cookoff is a fundraiser for the Chiefland schools agriculture program.

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  • Local teen’s business is blooming

    By CARRIE A. MIZELL
    Special to the Citizen
    He may not have a driver’s license, but Matthew George does have a blossoming daylily business.
    The 15-year-old Trenton High School student is actively involved in FFA, sports and running his own business.
    “Matthew is learning about the real world at a young age,” said Steve Broker, Trenton FFA advisor. “He’s a very serious young man, who works hard and will do anything you ask him to.”

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  • Ag agency tips for protecting homes in wildfire season

    Tallahassee – The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida Forest Service offered five tips to help Floridians protect themselves against the dangers of wildfire. Wildfire Awareness Week, which recognizes the wildfires that raged through Florida in 1998, burning more than 500,000 acres and damaging or destroying 337 homes and other structures, is April 8-14.

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  • Levy Soil and Water Conservation District host 2012 speaking contest

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  • Hunt to head new sheriff's unit

    Levy County Sheriff's Lt. Shawn Hunt has been named to the first Agriculture/Marine Unit in the department.
    Citizens have never had a full time ag/marine Investigator to work with farmers, timber business owners and clam farms in Cedar Key.  The duties will consist of investigating any Ag-related crimes, educating the farmers by giving crime prevention tips and community policing

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