by Doug Mayo | Oct 14, 2022
This week’s video was produced by Jim MacArthur, McArthur Farms, Malone, Florida, for his Field Rows YouTube Channel. This video shows the farm crew in action during the height of the 2022 peanut harvest season. With his video camera and drone, Jim shows all...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 7, 2022
The calendar has turned to October, so it is time for the annual UF/IFAS Peanut Butter Challenge. Extension Offices all across Florida will be accepting donations of peanut butter to supply local food banks in each county. Peanut farming is very common in the...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 30, 2022
This week’s featured video was produced by the University of Texas at Tyler’s South West Ag Center to address a serious issue, the mental health of farmers. In this video, Grant Heinrich, a Lubbock farmer and crop duster, shares his experience with mental...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 23, 2022
This week’s featured video is a single selection from the large video collection of Jeff Pybus, “The Rat Buster.” Pybus has become a YouTube sensation with millions of video views and 110k subscribers who love to watch him shoot rats. Pybus uses a...
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 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...
