On July 13, Florida NAMA and Southeast AgNet hosted a luncheon in conjunction with Florida Fertilizer and Agrichemical Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual meeting in Naples, Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 Lisa Lochridge, Director of Public Affairs for the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, spoke to the group in her role as the 2011 President of the Ag Institute of Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 The Ag Institute promotes the value of Florida agriculture, which produces over 280 different commodities.<\/p>\n
Lisa shared how the Institute has revitalized its efforts in educating, encouraging and empowering agriculture businesses and organizations in Florida to market, promote and communicate more effectively on behalf of producers and the industry.\u00c2\u00a0 The Ag Institute partnered with the University of Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Public Issues Education Center to research consumers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 perceptions of commonly used terms and graphics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with surprising results.\u00c2\u00a0 The results of this ongoing research will lead to a better understanding of how best to deliver messages that matter most to consumers.\u00c2\u00a0 More information on the research can be found at their site, aiflorida.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On July 13, Florida NAMA and Southeast AgNet hosted a luncheon in conjunction with Florida Fertilizer and Agrichemical Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual meeting in Naples, Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 Lisa Lochridge, Director of Public Affairs for the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, spoke to the group in her role as the 2011 President of the Ag Institute of Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}