by Doug Mayo | Dec 13, 2013
Rome Ethredge, UGA Seminole County Extension Coordinator Seminole Crop E News What are our planting options for 2014? Dr. Nathan Smith, UGA Extension Ag Economist, developed crop economic return estimates for 2014. These estimates are helpful in making those tough...
by Jim Marois | Dec 13, 2013
Jim Marois, Professor of Plant Pathology, NFREC-Quincy Researchers at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC) are working on a new winter crop for the Southeast U.S. Ethiopian mustard, Brassica carinata is an oil seed crop that can be used to...
by Cheryl Mackowiak | Dec 6, 2013
The use of cover crops is gaining popularity with conventional, sustainable, and organic growers. The number of research publications on this topic has sky-rocketed. There is a real opportunity for vegetable growers to benefit from cover crop techniques. Cover crops...
by Josh Thompson | Nov 15, 2013
Sugarcane is a crop that many folks eat at every meal of the day, without ever realizing it. Commercially, it is used to make sugar crystals which are incorporated into many foods we eat. However, in the Southern United States, sugarcane has been used since before the...
by Josh Thompson | Nov 9, 2013
It’s early November and there is still a great deal of cotton to be picked in Northwest Florida. Yield reports from Jackson County have been well below the norm, with yields being reported between 400 -1100 lbs. of lint per acre. Additionally, there have been some...
by Jennifer Bearden | Oct 25, 2013
Cover crops have been used by agricultural producers for thousands of years. However, we have seen a decline in cover crop use over the past century, as the use of commercial fertilizers have increased. Even though they are readily available and easy to use,...
