Crop Disaster Assistance for 2025: Is it Coming or Not?

Crop Disaster Assistance for 2025: Is it Coming or Not?

  Source: Southern Ag Today, November 202,2025, Bart Fischer, Co-Director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center, and Joe Outlaw, Extension Economist, Texas A&M. We think we can all agree on one thing: we’re all sick of talking about the state of the farm...
Potential Winter Cover Crops and Best Management Practices

Potential Winter Cover Crops and Best Management Practices

Introduction As the Florida Panhandle transitions into fall, farmers are finishing up summer crops and preparing for the winter months. This is an ideal time to plant cover crops, which serve as a critical tool for soil conservation, nutrient management, and improving...
Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New

Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New

Kalli, Susmitha, Yangxuan Liu, University of Georgia, Hunter D. Biram, University of Arkansas, and Fayu Chong, Virginia Tech. “Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New Under the OBBB Act.” Southern Ag Today – October 27, 2025. The One Big Beautiful...
2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

Nicholas Dufault, Barry Tillman, and Marco Goyzueta, UF/IFAS Extension Peanut Team With the 2025 peanut season concluding, it’s a good time to review this year’s plant disease issues and prepare for the next. Last year, the focus was on soilborne diseases like white...
Peanut Maturity Update – 10/9/25

Peanut Maturity Update – 10/9/25

  The aGDD Tracker below shows the number of adjusted Growing Degree Days (aGDDs) accumulated by 72 fictional fields (8 locations x 9 planting dates) as of 9/25/25. Real temperature and rainfall data from each location is used as well as common soil types for the...