by Mark Mauldin | Oct 6, 2023
Mark Mauldin, Ag & Natural Resources Agent Washington County, Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop IPM Agent, I started out the previous peanut maturity update by declaring that we had officially made it to Fall, and in a pleasant change of pace the weather actually...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 6, 2023
October is peanut harvest season, but it is also the month of the Peanut Butter Challenge across Florida. To celebrate the kickoff of the Peanut Butter Challenge, I thought it would be a great time to share this wonderful video published by Georgia Public...
by Mark Mauldin | Sep 22, 2023
We’ve made it to Fall and pleasant surprise, it actually feels fall-like outside (at least by Florida standards). As you would expect, with us moving into Fall we are seeing the peanut growing season really starting to wind down. Unfortunately, the hand...
by Hardeep Singh | Sep 22, 2023
On August 24, 2023, the West Florida Research and Education Center (WFREC) hosted an Extension Farm Field Day that brought together farmers, researchers, and agriculture enthusiasts for a day of learning, networking, and celebrating the agricultural innovations of the...
by Mark Mauldin | Sep 8, 2023
The peanut growing season is winding down. In the Peninsular counties, lots of peanuts are already out of the field and here in the Panhandle harvest is coming on fast. The calendar says it’s time to dig mid-April planted peanuts, but peanuts don’t...
by Zane Grabau | Aug 25, 2023
All growers have them. That patch in a field (or a few fields), that just isn’t quite right. Maybe the plants are just smaller than the rest of the field. Maybe the plants are a little discolored. Or really discolored. Maybe the stand is poor. That bad patch could be...