Friday Feature: Scouting Crop Fields with Drones

Friday Feature: Scouting Crop Fields with Drones

This week’s featured video was produced by Matthew Sligar, who has created a YouTube channel called Rice Farming TV.  Matthew enjoys sharing interesting things he does on his California rice farming operation.  This video shows how he uses a new type of drone to...
Preparing for Cool-season Cover Crops

Preparing for Cool-season Cover Crops

Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS (Soil fertility/water quality) & Ann Blount, UF/IFAS (Forage breeding/genetics) Now is the time to purchase your cool-season cover crop seed! Cover crops are used to protect bare soil over the winter months and for grazing in planted...
USDA Commodity Costs and Return Estimates

USDA Commodity Costs and Return Estimates

Source: USDA Economic Research Service Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, milk, hogs, and cow-calf. The series of commodity cost and...