For Your Information - Feb 19th - Liberty County Agricultural Extension Agent

On For Your Information this week, my guest is Roy Flora, Cleveland, Liberty County Agricultural Extension Agent (EA), who told listeners Liberty County has four EA’s , his main field being agriculture (ag) and livestock with the others covering such things as : items covered by home economics ; 4H and FFA ; and under-served sections of the population. He explained much commercial ag in the Greater Cleveland area involves hay, rice, and grain farming, and he helps local commercial farmers with land management and advanced product selection. Flora said most people with concerns of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) don’t realize humans have been doing this for thousands of years by selecting, then crossing with another strain of the same organisms, to produce a GMS. He explained cattle with red bodies and white faces, dogs like poodles or chiwawas, pigs with black bodies and a white belts, all are GMOs.