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Bo Herndon Testimony

September 30, 2009 – 11:29 am |  Filed Under: 
Testimony for L. G. ‘Bo’ Herndon Before the Agricultural Marketing Service, US Dept of Agriculture Docket No. FV09-970-1 Leafy Green Vegetables Handled in the US September 30, 2009 My name is L.G. ‘Bo’ Herndon. I currently serve as President of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.  I am a producer/packer/shipper of ???XX acres of fresh produce in Lyons, Georgia, including Vidalia onions, sweet corn and ??xx acres of leafy greens.  According to SBA business definitions my total operation would be classified as a large grower but my leafy greens operation would be considered a small grower.  I am classified
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Beth Bland Testimony

September 30, 2009 – 11:26 am |  Filed Under: 
Testimony of Beth Bland Agricultural Marketing Service, US Dept of Agriculture Docket No. FV09-970-1 Leafy Green Vegetables Handled in the US September 30, 2009 Jacksonville, FL Hello. My name is Beth Bland and I am the Food Safety Program Coordinator with the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association. About 10 years ago, Georgia producers came to our Association asking for help understanding the, then, new food safety guidance, programs and accompanying 3rd-party audits. They were also asking for help to alleviate the costs of implementing those programs and audits. As a result, the Georgia Good Agricultural Practices Food Safety Program
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GFVGA Statement August 2009

August 19, 2009 – 10:59 am |  Filed Under: 
August 19, 2009 Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulator Public Docket (7502P) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-001 Subject: Re-registration of fomesafen (Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0239) Current proposed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Re-Registration regulations for fomesafen will restrict vegetable production in Georgia. These regulations would eliminate the most effective tool to manage Palmer amaranth and morningglory in 67% of Georgia’s snap bean acreage (farm gate value of $22.6 million). These regulations will also eliminate the benefits of fomesafen currently being developed for fruiting vegetables and cucurbits (farm gate value exceeding $387 million), including its role as
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Reflex Buffers Proposed

August 16, 2009 – 11:05 am |  Filed Under: 
Summary Current proposed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Re-Registration regulations for fomesafen will cripple cotton and vegetable production in Georgia. These regulations in Georgia cotton alone would potentially reduce farm gate values in excess of $156 million. Additionally, these regulations would eliminate the most effective tool to manage Palmer amaranth and morningglory in 67% of Georgia’s snap bean acreage (farm gate value of $22.6 million). These regulations will also eliminate the benefits of fomesafen currently being developed for fruiting vegetables and cucurbits (farm gate value exceeding $387 million), including its role as a key herbicide in the development of methyl
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GFVGA Ethanol Letter of Support

July 15, 2009 – 12:00 pm |  Filed Under: 
July 15, 2009 Georgia Department of Agriculture 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW Atlanta, GA 30334 The State of Georgia is one of the largest fruit producers in the U.S. Unfortunately, there is a lot of waste in this industry and 50% of the fruit never makes it to the market. Because of recent congressional mandates that call for the production of 36 billion gallons of fuel ethanol annually by the year 2022, there is a significant opportunity to convert the waste fruit into fuel ethanol and a dried distillers grains co-product that would be used as animal feed
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Water Councils Membership

April 1, 2009 – 11:56 am |  Filed Under: 
Water Councils Membership Click here for full list of membership
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