by Doug Mayo | Oct 7, 2016
Chris Prevatt, UF/IFAS Regional Livestock Economics Agent The August 2017 Feeder Cattle futures contract decreased by $10.38/cwt. during September. Based on this futures price decrease, August Feeder Cattle revenues decreased by approximately $77.85/hd. ($10.38/cwt. *...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 7, 2016
September rainfall was greatly influenced by Hurricane Hermine. The eastern Panhandle Counties had significantly more rainfall in the month of September. September totals ranged from over 10″ (pink) in portions of Franklin, Leon, and Jefferson County to a low...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 7, 2016
One day a farmer’s jackass fell down into an old abandoned well on the old homestead. The animal brayed and squealed pitifully for hours. The farmer was going crazy, because he could not figure out what to do. He and his wife hardly slept at all, as the poor...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 23, 2016
Farm machinery classified adds are normally dull and boring, but do get the point across in just a few words. Recently a farmer in the Panhandle came up with something really clever to generate income for his farm from an antique tractor restoration project that had...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 16, 2016
I’m not 100% sure what the cotton market expected to see in this week’s USDA monthly estimates. As if anyone ever knows. Whatever the market was expecting, it didn’t get it; prices reacted accordingly—down. In the short term, markets and price direction are driven...
