Friday Feature:  Deer Farming in the Panhandle

Friday Feature: Deer Farming in the Panhandle

This week’s featured video highlights a unique type of livestock operation that is gaining popularity very quickly in Florida, Deer Farming.  The video is actually an episode of Keith Warren’s TV Show called Deer & Wildlife Stories. The video features...
MARC Updates Across-Breed EPD Table

MARC Updates Across-Breed EPD Table

Bull buying is a challenging craft.  First you have to decide the breed or breeds of cattle you want for your operation, then you have to compare performance of locally available sources, and then negotiate prices.  In times like these, when cattle prices are not as...
Friday Feature:  Autonomous Drone Scouting

Friday Feature: Autonomous Drone Scouting

This week’s featured video was produced by American Robotics to introduce ScoutTM, a fully-automated drone system for farmers.  Scout features season-long automated crop scouting that is autonomous, or pre-programmed for launch, flight, imaging, landing,...
Useful Smartphone Apps for Cattle Ranchers

Useful Smartphone Apps for Cattle Ranchers

If you’re like me, you were really excited when you got your first smart phone or tablet because of all of the cool applications (apps) that were available to quickly guide you to useful information.  Once you had selected your favorite weather, radar, sports...
2017 Weather Summary and First Quarter 2018 Outlook

2017 Weather Summary and First Quarter 2018 Outlook

2017 Annual Weather Summary There was considerable variation in the annual rainfall across the Panhandle in 2017. The graphic above shows National Weather Service’s estimated annual rainfall for the Florida Panhandle Counties.  Areas in purple received more than...