October 2025 Florida Cattle Market Update

October 2025 Florida Cattle Market Update

Remembering the Fundamentals Amidst Chaos The last few weeks of October brought no shortage of headlines for the cattle industry — from concerns over beef prices being “too high” and increasing imports from Argentina. The ongoing government shutdown disrupted market...
Friday Feature:  The McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce Story

Friday Feature: The McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce Story

This week’s featured video was produced by Business Insider.  The video tells the unique story of the McIlhenny Company that has been making tabasco sauce on an island in Louisiana with the same recipe of red peppers, vinegar and salt since 1868.  It takes 5...
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...
Cotton Marketing News: Prices and Strategies

Cotton Marketing News: Prices and Strategies

Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist The government shutdown has paused or scaled down some USDA functions, but not all.  The October supply/demand (WASDE) report was not released, weekly exports data is not available, weekly crop progress and conditions data is...