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NASHVILLE – State Agriculture Commissioner Ken Givens today announced the recent acquisition of a 1,900-acre permanent conservation easement to expand the Big Forks Tree Farm and Wildlife Management Area on the Southern Cumberland Plateau. The acquisition is the culmination of a seven-year effort to bring more than 3,000 acres under conservation management in the area.

NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen has requested a federal designation of agricultural disaster for Giles and Macon counties as a result of drought conditions during the 2008 growing season. Bredesen made the request this week in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer.

NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated nine more counties in Tennessee as natural disaster areas for agriculture due to drought conditions in 2008.

NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated seven more counties in Tennessee as natural disaster areas for agriculture due to drought.

NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen has requested a federal designation of agricultural disaster for nine more counties to help Tennessee farmers who have suffered crop and livestock losses as a result of persistent drought conditions.

NASHVILLE – Forestry officials with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the University of Tennessee Extension are urging forest landowners to become better informed when considering selling carbon credits to a trader or aggregator of carbon credits. 

Stephen Peairs

NASHVILLE – Stephen Peairs was recently named the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry’s Forester of the Year. The award is presented annually to a division forester who exemplifies the highest level of professionalism in serving the citizens and forest landowners of Tennessee.

NASHVILLE – It’s a holiday memory your family will always cherish: the day you all sat down together and flipped through the January sale catalog looking for that perfect half-price artificial tree. The magical look on your children’s faces when you crammed that box onto a dusty shelf in the garage was one you’ll never forget. The anticipation of pulling out that plastic tree and piecing it together next Christmas lasted all through the year.  Sound unlikely? It does to Tennessee’s Christmas tree growers, too.

NASHVILLE - Shopping for a gift that will please can take a lot of fun out of the holidays—and a lot of cash out of your pocket, especially when you tally up the cost of fuel spent driving from store to store and the value of your own time. The only thing worse than spending a day shopping when you could have been home by the fire is going to all that effort and still coming home with a gift you really don’t feel good about giving.

NASHVILLE – The State Soil Conservation Committee will meet Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m. CST at the Cool Springs Marriott, located at 700 Cool Springs Blvd. in Franklin, Tenn., in conjunction with the Tennessee Farm Bureau convention.