NORTH FORT MYERS \u2014 A Florida farmer is drawing knowledge from agricultural experts and applying it to his farm, which could ultimately end up on your table. <\/p>\n
Josh Jamison, the primary grower at Cody Cove Farm and Nursery in central Florida, credits the ECHO International Agricultural Conference with having an impact on his farming practices. <\/p>\n
Watch Fox 4’s Allie Kaiser see how local farmers learn from those who work across the world: <\/p>\n
A Florida farmer learns new possibilities from people who live across the world<\/p>\n
The conference connects farmers and ranchers from similar climates to share knowledge and techniques.<\/p>\n
“I’m very interested in learning from people that are working in tropical countries,” Jamison said.<\/p>\n
The knowledge exchange has proven valuable for Jamison, who says each gathering provides new insights.<\/p>\n
“Every time you gather with people like this, there’s some little tidbit of knowledge that you never knew that you might come across,” Jamison said.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Fox 4<\/p>\n
People involved with every aspect of agriculture are coming together this week to learn about different practices in their field. <\/p>\n
Working with farmers from hot and humid climates similar to Florida’s, Jamison has discovered crops he never thought of growing in his area. <\/p>\n
“Winged bean – actually a bamboo that I’m seeing off here in the distance is something we have on our farm that I dug from that plant right there,” Jamison said.<\/p>\n
Grace Ju Miller, director of ECHO’s North America Impact Center, said discovering new growing methods is a key component of the conference.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Fox 4 <\/p>\n
The goal of the three-day conference is to share ideas and learn from others doing similar work around the world. <\/p>\n
“They get ideas from other parts of the world,” said Miller. “They get ideas from each other.”<\/p>\n
These agricultural innovations directly impact what consumers can find available from local farms, such as Jamison’s.<\/p>\n
“The things that go on in our farm are a direct outflow from interactions and positive things that I’ve had attending this conference,” Jamison said.<\/p>\n
This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS \u2014 A Florida farmer is drawing knowledge from agricultural experts and applying it to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28369,209,211,210,28370,28364,28365,28366,28371,28367,28368,356,14069],"class_list":["post-43115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-american-farming","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cody-cove","tag-cody-cove-farm-and-nursery","tag-echo-international-agricultural-conference","tag-echos-north-america-impact-center","tag-florida-farmers","tag-grace-ju-miller","tag-josh-jamison","tag-lee-county","tag-north-fort-myers-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}