by Doug Mayo | Feb 28, 2020
This week’s featured video was sent in by Pete Vergot, UF/IFAS District Director. The video was from a news story produced by WJHG News Channel 7 out of Panama City. James Sheppard of Ponce de Leon (Walton County), has restored more than 160 antique John Deere...
by Kalyn Waters | Jun 3, 2019
Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent, and Kalyn Waters, Holmes County Agricultural Agent Trees, fences, and uneven ground can make applying pesticides to pastures with a boom-type sprayer challenging. One way to avoid these hazards is to utilize a boomless sprayer....
by Doug Mayo | May 24, 2019
Back in 2017, we shared the Case prototype Autonomous (Self-Driving) Tractors video, but as of yet these are still not available commercially. A Canadian company, DOT Technology Corporation has begun selling a limited release of autonomous tractors to farms, and is...
by Doug Mayo | Feb 22, 2019
The 34th annual Northwest Florida Beef Conference & Trade Show was held on Wednesday, February 13. A record crowd of 191 ranchers, cattle industry professionals, and extension faculty participated in the event. There were five educational presentations, as well as...
by Les Harrison | Aug 17, 2018
By August’s languid days, farmers and farm workers in north Florida have done battle with an almost endless array of destructive bugs in fields and pastures. Thrips, aphids, mites, nematodes and many more have all marshaled against successful agricultural production....
