by Doug Mayo | Sep 16, 2022
This week’s featured video was published by a PBS Show called Reconnecting Roots that features host Gabe McCauley. McAuley and his team produced an episode of Reconnecting Roots focused on agriculture. In the video I chose to share this week, McAuley asked a...
by Zane Grabau | Sep 9, 2022
Use of resistant cultivars is one of the main strategies available for managing plant-parasitic nematodes. In cotton and peanut, there have been new releases of resistant cultivars in recent years. Preliminary results and observations from ongoing UF/IFAS research to...
by Ethan Carter | Sep 9, 2022
Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop IPM Agent and Mark Mauldin, Washington County Agriculture Agent September is here, and that means peanut harvest is just around the corner. Equipment is starting to move down the roadways, maturity samples are being...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 9, 2022
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) have successfully grown plants in lunar soil extracted from three NASA missions to the Moon. Rob Feral and Anna Lisa Paul, UF/IFAS Horticulture Department, were the first scientist to show that plants can be grown in...
by Mark Mauldin | Aug 19, 2022
Green (immature) peanuts are already being harvested for boiling, and this morning on the news they were previewing high school football games – a busy summer has almost completely flown by without my having published an aGDD Tracker. Apologies for my...
by external | Aug 19, 2022
Source: Dr. Amanda Scherer, Extension Plant Pathologist for the August 17th edition of Cotton Shorts High humidity and temperatures along with vigorous canopy growth will favor prolonged periods of leaf wetness in crops and drive disease pressure across Alabama...
