by Doug Mayo | Oct 13, 2017
Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist The marketing assistance loan (MAL) is an important tool used by many producers and marketing associations in cotton pricing and risk management. In addition to research and farmer education, I teach courses in commodity...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 13, 2017
This week’s featured video is actually the movie trailer for a new documentary called Farmers for America. This video provides brief highlights of the issues that will be addressed in the documentary film that will be making its way across America over the...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 13, 2017
It has been 10 months since we shared a Friday Funny, due to a lack of good material. Special thanks to Ed Jowers, Emeritus Jackson County Extension Director for sending this funny story to share: The Chicken Cannon Scientists at NASA built a special cannon to launch...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 13, 2017
Source: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced on October 4, 2017 that the preliminary agricultural damages caused by Hurricane Irma in Florida total more than $2.5 billion. In an initial...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 6, 2017
September was an unusually dry month across much of the Panhandle, considering we were all watching Tropical Storm Irma so closely. You can see the red streaks where the outer-bands of Irma swung around on the eastern part of the region. Leon, Liberty, Gadsden,...
