Hurricane Preparation and Recovery Guides for Florida Producers

by admin | Jul 10, 2020

  The USDA Southeast Climate Hub with other USDA agencies and university Extension experts, have developed a set of guides for Florida agricultural producers. The guides are each tailored to a specific agricultural commodity and designed to help produces prepare...

Freezer Beef Boot Camp – Tuesdays in July

by Kalyn Waters | Jun 26, 2020

– There has been a tremendous spike in interest from cattle producers to begin to make the transition from marketing live cattle to marketing beef. In an effort to support those producers and answer their questions UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County and state...

Cotton Marketing News: Neutral Market Continues

by admin | Jun 26, 2020

Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics – Futures Prices USDA’s Acreage report, the first estimate of actual acres planted, will be out next week on Tuesday, June 30th.  USDA’s Prospective Plantings report back at the end of March said that...

Longleaf Pine Private Landowner Incentive Program – Apply through July 8

by admin | Jun 26, 2020

– Source: FDACS – Florida Forest Service The primary objective of the Longleaf Pine Private Landowner Incentives Program is to increase the acreage of healthy longleaf pine ecosystems in Florida by helping non-industrial private forest landowners to make...

Friday Feature: Peterson Brother’s Net Rap Music Video

by Doug Mayo | Jun 26, 2020

The Peterson Farm Brothers recently published another of their famous zany farm videos.  Their latest video, called “The Net Wrap,” is a rap song dedicated to bailing alfalfa hay on their Kansas Farm.  The Peterson Brothers are fifth generation Kansas farm...

Sorghum Silage – A Cost-effective Alternative for Backgrounding Weaned Cattle

by ndilorenzo | Jun 19, 2020

–  Nicolas DiLorenzo, UF/IFAS Beef Specialist, and Federico Podversich, Graduate Student, UF Department of Animal Sciences The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only our daily lives, but also most of the agricultural markets. The cattle market is no...