Featured Video:  President Carter Selling Boiled Peanuts

Featured Video: President Carter Selling Boiled Peanuts

Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, and was raised just outside of Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm.  Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024.  Carter served as the 39th President from 1977-1981.  To pay tribute to Jimmy Carter’s life, the Georgia...
2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook

2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook

Rainfall 2024 will be remembered by most farmers and ranchers as a dry growing season, but rainfall totals for the whole year were highly variable.  The map above to the left shows NOAA’s estimate of annual rainfall in 2024 across Florida.  Multiple hurricanes...
2024 Panhandle Ag e-News Reader’s Choice Awards

2024 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 2024.  Keep sharing those emails, posts, and tweets to help us spread the word, so more farmers and ranchers...
Friday Feature:  U.S. Farming from 1865 to 1900

Friday Feature: U.S. Farming from 1865 to 1900

This week’s featured video is a 1968 16mm film that shares the history and challenges of farming in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900s.  Farmers in the late 1800s had some significant obstacles to overcome with almost no unified voice. ...
2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

  Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers.  As we prepare for 2025, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....