by Mark Mauldin | Aug 22, 2025
If you are raising livestock in North Florida, cool-season forages are an opportunity that you do not need to miss out on. Our winters here are mild enough that we are able to grow a wide variety of annual forage crops through the winter. Doing so allows for...
by Mark Mauldin | Aug 15, 2025
For a growing plant, not all calendar days are created equally, temperature and available moister can impact a plant’s ability to meet its maximum potential for growth/development on any specific day – in short, plants are more productive some days...
by Mark Mauldin | Aug 15, 2025
The blistering heat of early August is generally not a time when people think a lot about planting crops, but maybe it should be. Late summer can be a surprisingly active time in the world of wildlife food plots. For those land managers who already have well...
by Mark Mauldin | Apr 11, 2025
As of April 1, 2025, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) has transitioned away from their previous pesticide websites to a new aggregated Division of Agricultural Environmental Services (AES) Licensing Portal – all pesticide...
by Mark Mauldin | Mar 28, 2025
The calendar and the weather agree, spring has sprung. Earlier today I made two observations which lend further credence to that conclusion. 1) my truck has turned yellow (under a thick coating of pollen) and 2) there was a line, literally out the door, at a...