by Robbie Jones | Oct 3, 2025
The 2025 Small Ruminant Grazing Field Day will be held Wednesday, November 5, at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, in Quincy. Experts from UF/IFAS, FAMU, Auburn, and NC State will share their expertise on topics from year-round grazing...
by Mark Mauldin | Aug 22, 2025
If you are raising livestock in North Florida, cool-season forages are an opportunity that you do not need to miss out on. Our winters here are mild enough that we are able to grow a wide variety of annual forage crops through the winter. Doing so allows for...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 15, 2025
The 4th annual UF Small Ruminant Short Course will be held on October 10-11, 2025 in Gainesville, Florida. Producers, extension specialists and agents, researchers, students, and allied industry members are welcome to attend this in-person, educational event. The...
by Kalyn Waters | Jul 18, 2025
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County In the Southeast, every rancher is also a “grass farmer!” Our primary resource we depend on is forage. However,...
by Amanda Masholie | May 22, 2025
Amanda Masholie, Sustainable Ag & Small Farms Agent-Walton County As a highly adapted grazing animal, horses encounter challenges when high quality forages are not the foundation of their diet. Many horses kept in confinement develop behavioral issues such as...
by Mark Mauldin | Mar 28, 2025
The calendar and the weather agree, spring has sprung. Earlier today I made two observations which lend further credence to that conclusion. 1) my truck has turned yellow (under a thick coating of pollen) and 2) there was a line, literally out the door, at a...
