More than 300 cowboys and ranchers participate in Great Florida Cattle Drive, moving 500 head of cattle 80 miles using ...

As 1,000 people move to Florida every day, it’s more important than ever that lawmakers focus on ways to protect water, native wildlife and natural landscape. Agricultural lands supply wide, open ...

OKEECHOBEE — At daybreak on a misty-blue Wednesday, a herd of cows and bulls are horseplaying on a South Florida prairie when a tractor roars to life, hoisting in its jaws a hay bale as golden as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Immokalee Cattle Drive and Jamboree celebrates the ranching history and culture in Southwest Florida as well as the people who ...

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved spending $19 million to conserve rural land used to raise cattle, while also expanding a list of agricultural properties the ...

Cattle rancher Billy Kempfer would love for Florida to pay him for the development rights on his land, keeping it as ranchland forever. But it all comes down to the list. His St. Cloud-based Kempfer ...

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services on Wednesday announced a $2.837 million deal to preserve 470 acres at a cattle ranch in Hardee County. The deal involves purchasing a ...

LAKE HATCHINEHA — Longtime Floridians will recall that in decades past, before Central Florida became a tourist mecca peppered with housing developments from the Atlantic to the Gulf, venturing ...

OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. — Algal blooms that have often crippled the Treasure Coast over the years can in part be traced to fertilizer runoff from ranches and farms north of Lake Okeechobee. That ...

A state loophole is costing Sarasota and Manatee counties millions in lost revenue by allowing developers to tap a decades-old law meant to preserve agriculture and shrink the taxes on pastures they ...