by John Doyle Atkins | Dec 16, 2016
Santa Rosa County is not a major corn producer, as compared to the Midwest, but farmers there do grow 600-800 acres of field corn each year. These producers plant corn as a summer rotational crop, some for cattle feed, and a significant acreage is planted and sold to...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 16, 2016
Don Shurley, Cotton Economist, UGA Professor Emeritus My kids, and now grandkids, seem to enjoy the cheap, unexpected surprises in their Christmas stocking as much as anything. USDA’s December crop production and supply/demand estimates were as expected, in some...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 2, 2016
The 2016 US crop may still be somewhat of a question mark but USDA’s November numbers provided clarity on a few things—the crop got smaller in some areas as expected and the crop still got bigger overall. The North Carolina and South Carolina crops were reduced by a...
by Libbie Johnson | Nov 18, 2016
As dry as this Fall has been, planting cover crops has not been a priority or an option for many producers in the Florida Panhandle. One Escambia County grower planted an interesting cover crop mixture that has garnered a lot of attention locally this summer....
by Judy Biss | Nov 4, 2016
On a recent trip to Arkansas, I was captivated by the beauty of vast fields of flooded rice nearly ready for harvest. That image is just something you don’t see every day in the Florida Panhandle! Equally interesting is the fact that rice is a semi-aquatic plant,...
by btillman | Oct 28, 2016
As the saying goes, “hind-sight is 20-20.” As I’m writing this, peering through my bifocals, I wish my vision was still 20-20. But that’s another topic. As peanut harvest comes to a close, it’s often a good time to assess the successes and the disappointments of...
