by Ethan Carter | Dec 15, 2023
On January 30th, Santa Rosa County Extension will be hosting its annual Row Crop Production meeting. Due to scheduled construction at the Jay Office location, the event will be held at the UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center (WFREC), 4253 Experiment...
by Marcelo Wallau | Sep 15, 2023
William Hammond, UF/IFAS Plant Physiologist, Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, Clyde Fraise, UF/IFAS Agrometeorologist, and Gerard Sapes, UF/IFAS Plant Physiologist Florida is going through one of the hottest summers on record. Between February 1st...
by Zane Grabau | Aug 25, 2023
All growers have them. That patch in a field (or a few fields), that just isn’t quite right. Maybe the plants are just smaller than the rest of the field. Maybe the plants are a little discolored. Or really discolored. Maybe the stand is poor. That bad patch could be...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 4, 2023
This week’s featured video, published by FieldView (Digital Farming Software Platform), is a documentary that follows an Iowa corn & soybean farmer through one growing season. Check out the 24-minute video that shares the highlights of a single crop year...
by Ethan Carter | Jun 9, 2023
Ethan Carter, UF/IFAS Extension Regional Specialized Agent Row Crop IPM; Dr. Bob Kemerait, UGA Plant Pathologist, Dr. Ian Small, UF/IFAS Plant Pathologist Many of the Panhandle’s March planted corn fields are now well into tassel stage (VT). From tassel to milk...
by Hardeep Singh | Jun 2, 2023
Florida Best Management Practice (BMP) programs have increased use of cover crop technologies in the Florida Panhandle. Winter cover crops are crops planted in late summer or early fall to provide winter soil protection and ground cover or green manuring for...