Strategies to Manage Cost of Production in Pasture Systems
Dr. Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Extension Forage Specialist, Mark Mauldin, UF/IFAS Extension Agent Washington County The recurrent theme of recent conversations with extension colleagues and producers is the great concern over the cost of production in 2022. Prices of...
Keeping Pasture Weeds Under Control
A theme I have seen this past year is pasture weeds becoming a major nuisance for landowners and cattlemen. Weeds don’t just reach a threshold overnight, there is a time we can make an impact without breaking the farm budget. However, many times pasture weeds have...
Performance of New Cotton Cultivars Resistant to Reniform and Root-knot Nematode in 2021 Trials
Over the past few years, there have been intriguing new developments for nematode management in cotton. Reniform nematode and southern root-knot nematode are the major nematode pests of cotton in Florida and the Southeast. Nematode management typically relies on a...
What’s All the Buzz about COVID in Deer?
Samantha M. Wisely, Extension Specialist for Wildlife Diseases, University of Florida - What are SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? Sudden acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, is the virus responsible for the global pandemic that began in late 2019. While...
2021 Panhandle Ag e-News Reader’s Choice Awards
The Panhandle Ag Extension Team would like to thank our email subscribers and social media followers for your interest and support of Panhandle Ag e-News in 2021. Keep sharing those emails, posts, and tweets to help us spread the word, so more farmer4s and ranchers...
Chronic Wasting Disease Gets Closer to Florida
Below is a bulletin sent out by Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission on 01/10/2022 Chronic wasting disease or CWD was recently detected in a hunter-harvested deer in northwestern Alabama, making it the 28th state where CWD has been documented. It’s the...
Tri-State Cucurbit and Emerging Vegetables Conference – January 25
Event Date: January 25, 2022 Time: 7:30 am- 3:00 pm Where: Jackson County Agriculture Conference Center, 2741 Penn Ave, Marianna FL The Tri-State Cucurbit Conference has been expanded to include emerging vegetables. We will have cucurbit crop focused topics in the...
Panhandle Corn & Soybean Update – February 11
This year the presentations at the longstanding Row Crop Short Course (3/3/22) will be specific to cotton and peanuts. With that in mind, the Panhandle Ag Extension Team planned the Panhandle Corn & Soybean Update in an effort to provide corn and soybean producers...
Central Panhandle Pesticide Applicator Training Series- February 21-24
The Central Panhandle Pesticide Applicator Training Series is a multi-county collaboration between Holmes, Washington, Calhoun and Jackson County Extension agents. The 2022 series is scheduled for February 21-24th and will take place this year in Blountstown, Florida....
2022 Panhandle Row Crop Short Course – March 3
Farmers from across the Florida Panhandle, as well as southern Alabama and Georgia are invited to attend the 2022 Panhandle Row Crop Short Course. The meeting will be hosted by Jackson County Extension on Thursday, March 3, at the Jackson County Agriculture Conference...