In a newly established bahiagrass field, understanding and controlling weeds can be a formidable task, but is extremely necessary to obtain the best pasture. Recently, a cattleman expressed concern about a grass weed that was really filling out his newly established...
Ann Blount, Cheryl Mackowiak, Sunny Liao, Jose Dubeux, Kelly Thomas, Jung-Chen Liu, Victor Guerra, Adesuwa Erhunmwunse, Valerie Mendez, and Doug Mayo, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Forage Team For the past several years the Perennial Peanut...
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is certainly not new on the scene, and while it is widely used on stocker operations and dairies, it has been my observation that this fast growing, high quality, summer annual grass is somewhat under utilized on cow-calf operations....
A cattle producer contacted me earlier this spring to investigate a “pretty but unusual” weed that had quickly spread over a pasture. This field had been planted this past fall with certified oat seed for winter forage. While definitely pretty, it was obvious that...
The subject of this video is a no-till cool-season livestock & wildlife forage demonstration, in Gulf County. There are a number of ag extension agents across the state that have participated with state specialists and landowners to implement this past season’s...
Ann Blount, Forage Breeder, NFREC While most people are staying safely distanced from the world at home, those of us lucky enough to live on farms haven’t struggled with lack of activities, exercise and sunshine. I can tell based on the increase in phone calls to my...
