Making the Most of High Cattle Prices – Grow More of Your Own Feed
Back in May, I attended the University of Florida's 74th annual Beef Cattle Short Course, in Gainesville. The theme this year was, "RIDING THE HIGH TIDE - Decision Making in a Record Cattle Market." There were a lot of great speakers that covered a number of...
Grower Survey Insights on Cotton Nitrogen Management in Florida’s Panhandle
Ramdeo "Andy" Seepaul, Ethan Carter, Ian Small, and Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Cotton production in Florida’s Panhandle presents a unique set of challenges: light, sandy soils, variable rainfall, and diverse field conditions....
Nutrient Cycling in Grazed Pastures
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County In the Southeast, every rancher is also a "grass farmer!" Our primary resource we depend on is forage. However, Florida...
2025 Big Bend Pesticide Safety Training Series – September 8-11
UF/IFAS Extension Gadsden County will host this year’s Big Bend Pesticide Safety Training Series. The series is a multi-county collaboration between Gadsden, Leon, and Jefferson County Extension Agents. The series is scheduled for September 8th-11th at the...
Friday Feature: 1960 Corn Farmer
As a high school student, I remember watching neat old movies about farming in FFA, so I always love finding these old films on YouTube. This week's feature video was an Encyclopedia Britannica film produced to highlight modern corn farming in 1960. In the film,...
Challenges Using Oxalic Acid Against Summer Varroa Mite Infestations for Panhandle Beekeepers
One the greatest threats to the western honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, is a mite species known as Varroa destructor. Unfortunately, the Florida Panhandle is within the range of this hive devastating pest. Oxalic acid treatment has been shown to work well against...
Leptospirosis in Cattle: Why You Should Know More About It?
Bruna A. Feliciano; Beatriz S. Nemoto; Ameer A. Megahed; Alireza R. Shahraki; Viviani Gomes; João Bittar, UF/IFAS Beef Cattle Extension Veterinarian Leptospirosis (aka Lepto) is a disease caused by a spirochete bacterium belonging to the genus Leptospira and...
Cotton Pest Update: Stink Bugs and New Invasive Cotton Pest – Two-Spotted Cotton Leafhopper, Moving into Cotton
Cotton across the Panhandle is at various stages of development, from early vegetative, to squaring, to bloom. Insect pest activity has been relatively light so far, but it appears to be increasing; stink bugs and plant bugs are moving into fields. Early planted...
Summer Mineral Consumption for Cattle on Pasture
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County One of the issues that can handicap production in the summer months is the struggle to get cattle to consistently consume...
Panhandle Cotton Acres Are Down in 2025– Here’s the Reason
If you’ve spent much time at all paying attention to what’s growing in Panhandle crop fields, you may have noticed a decrease in planted cotton acres. In normal years, the crop acreage in our area is split roughly evenly between cotton and peanuts, with soybean and...