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Editor’s Blog
What’s New in CFAN
FIRST, IF YOU HAVEN’T readityet,Iencourage you to check out our new columnist on PAGE 16. Her name is Abby Crawford, and she’s the voice of Ag Time with Abby, a radio segment that airs the first Friday morning of every month on 97 Country’s the Breakfast Club with Roger and Melissa. As it happens, Abby is also the president of her Haines City High School FFA Chapter and the winner of the recent Polk County Farm Bureau Youth Speech Contest.
As a young student, I had some early experience with public speaking. It is not easy to do! It takes hours of research, topic development, writing, editing, and of course— tons of practice. I’d like to take a moment to congratulate Abby and all of the Youth Speech Contest entrants for their presentations. I know each of them worked hard to speak with informed command on the following topic: “Food security is an important issue to the people of the United States. How can Florida agriculture continue to provide quality solutions for the future?” This
is certainly a tough question for anyone to answer, and the Youth Speech Contest speakers should be proud of their efforts.
Also, in this edition we share four stories about different companies that serve the agriculture industry. These companies, whether large or small, have devoted their time, resources, and ingenuity to help keep Florida agriculture running at optimum speed. Both the business and the people behind the business have interesting tales to tell of how they started and how they continue to serve the ag industry. You can read all about them on PAGE 24.
If you have any stories you’d like to share, I always welcome them. Email, write me, or send us a message on Facebook!
CELESTE JO WALLS, Editor celeste.walls @centralfloridamediagroup.com
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AG FLYING SERVICE sprays some 100,000 plus acres every year, 60 percent of it in Florida. To read more about this agri-business, turn toPAGE 24.
IMAGINE A WORLD WITH HALF AS MUCH FOOD.
Without crop nutrients, that would be our reality.
The work we do at Mosaic is critical to helping feed the world. We provide farmers with phosphate crop nutrients that enable them to produce more food on less land.
Essential crop nutrients — like phosphate mined and manufactured in Florida — are responsible for 40-60 percent of the crop yields farmers produce worldwide.* That translates into more abundant and affordable food here at home. As our world keeps growing, Mosaic keeps working to help put food on the table, for all of us.
We help the world grow the food it needs.
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*Source: Agronomy Journal mosaicco.com/florida
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