by Doug Mayo | Feb 7, 2020
This week’s featured video is part two of the Mr. Peanut Super Bowl commercial saga. The advertising staff of the Planters company must have had a lot of fun dreaming up this advertising campaign for the Super Bowl. First they killed him off with a heroic act...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 31, 2020
Rainfall 2019 was not a good weather year for farming in the Panhandle. It was the hottest year on record along the impact zone of Hurricane Michael. It was also abnormally dry over the second half of the growing season, so that was a bad combination for growing...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 31, 2020
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Last winter and spring, cotton futures prices were above 75 cents for most of that time and nearer 80 cents. Some growers took advantage and priced a portion of expected 2019 production. Some growers did not...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 31, 2020
This week’s featured video was published by Planters Peanuts. The company released the following video on social media this past week to preview the upcoming Supper Bowl Commercial that ends Mr Peanut’s 104 -years of advertising campaign for peanut snack...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 24, 2020
On January 22, 2020, Agriculture Commissioner Nicole “Nikki” Fried and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Dr. Jennifer Taylor as the 2019 Woman of the Year in Agriculture. For 35 years, this recognition has been awarded to women who...
