by Doug Mayo | Jun 9, 2023
According to the National Peanut Board, “since 2001 peanut farmers have invested more than $25.3 million of their own dollars into research and education about food and peanut allergies.” A research summary, recently published in the New England Journal...
by Hardeep Singh | Jun 2, 2023
Florida Best Management Practice (BMP) programs have increased use of cover crop technologies in the Florida Panhandle. Winter cover crops are crops planted in late summer or early fall to provide winter soil protection and ground cover or green manuring for...
by Isaac Esquivel | May 26, 2023
We are now a few weeks into the cotton and peanut season, with some farmers having already planted their crops. Others are currently in the process of planting, and some are yet to begin behind small grains. While recent rain has caused setbacks for a few, it has also...
by Doug Mayo | May 26, 2023
This week’s featured video was published by Reuters News Service to share the story of innovative farmers in Ukraine. Russian troops mined farm fields, so Oleksandr Kryvtsov used armor from damaged and abandoned Russian tanks to build a mine remover attachment...
by Nicholas Dufault | May 19, 2023
Blights, spots and rusts; oh my! It is getting to that time of year when we start to see diseases showing up in corn and begin to wonder if we should spray a fungicide or not. Southern rust is an explosive and damaging corn disease in which fungicide applications can...
by external | May 19, 2023
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Since plummeting to the low 70’s last Fall, new crop December 23 futures have been on a roller-coaster, up then down then up again to near 86 cents by the end of January. December 23 futures have since teetered...
