2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

  Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers.  As we prepare for 2025, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....
Cotton Marketing News:  Will Cotton Acres Respond to Price?

Cotton Marketing News: Will Cotton Acres Respond to Price?

Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist Cotton prices continue to struggle.  Every attempt to gain some ground is met with headwind or negative news/forces leading prices to retreat. There are two “fences” in this market—one at 72 to 73 cents (the front fence) and...
North Florida 2024 Corn Variety Test Performance

North Florida 2024 Corn Variety Test Performance

  Sudeep Sidhu, UF/IFAS Agronomy Specialist, and Gabrielle Alves Comitre, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center In 2024, an irrigated corn variety evaluation was conducted at two locations: North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC)-Suwanee...
2024 Panhandle Peanut Butter Challenge Results

2024 Panhandle Peanut Butter Challenge Results

Forty of Florida’s 67 counties, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), and the University of Florida’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) participated in the Peanut Butter Challenge in 2024.  In total, 30,831 jars​ (39,898...
Precision Technology Weed Control Sprayer Demonstration

Precision Technology Weed Control Sprayer Demonstration

Guilherme “G” Morata, UF/IFAS Extension Santa Rosa County Precision spraying for weed control has become increasingly vital in modern agriculture. As growers face rising input costs and growing environmental challenges, the need for sustainable and...
Harvest Time – Recapping the 2024 Cropping Season

Harvest Time – Recapping the 2024 Cropping Season

Another year has almost come and gone for Central Panhandle (Jackson, Calhoun, Washington, and Holmes County) farmers.  Peanuts and cotton planted back in April and May have reached maturity and have mostly been harvested.  So, with the end of the season upon us,...