by Amanda Masholie | Sep 12, 2025
Florida’s year-round mosquito population poses a serious threat to equine health. Mosquito-borne viruses such as Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (EEE, WEE, VEE) and West Nile Virus (WNV) can cause severe neurological damage and high mortality...
by Ethan Carter | Aug 29, 2025
The 2025 UF Peanut Field Day was held Thursday, August 14, near Marianna, Florida. The event had a record turnout for recent years, with 194 people. Six tractor pulled wagons through the fields carrying attendees to the different speaker stops. This annual...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 29, 2025
This week’s featured video was produced by PhytoGen Cottonseed to promote the new varieties they have developed with both root-knot and reniform nematode resistance. In addition, these varieties are also resistant to bacterial blight. Nematodes are a major...
by Ethan Carter | Aug 22, 2025
Ethan Carter, Daniel Leonard, Mark Warren, Beth Cannon, Jay Capasso, Barry Tillman, Nick Dufault, UF/IFAS Extension Peanut Team Over the last 7 to 10 days, reports of peanut leaf spot and rust diseases have increased from Levy to Jackson counties. It is important for...
by Kalyn Waters | Aug 15, 2025
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters Yep, it’s hot! And everyone is feeling it. From the sweat on our brows and cattle in the ponds, there is no question we are in the “heat” of the summer...
by Daniel J. Leonard | Aug 8, 2025
After weeks of extreme July heat and dry conditions across much of the Panhandle, August has been a washout so far. The widespread rainy weather of the last few days has provided a brief reprieve from the heat and has been a welcome sight for those of us that have...
