by Libbie Johnson | Feb 28, 2020
Throughout the Southeast, anyone driving in the countryside will come across beautiful green fields planted with cover crops in cash crop fields or in pastures used for livestock grazing. Often, a single species is planted, but some growers uses mixes in their...
by Doug Mayo | Feb 21, 2020
– I have received a number of calls recently with questions about pasture planting. There are a number of reasons to plant or re-plant pastures, whether you are converting crop or timber land to pasture, renovating a field that had been overtaken by weeds, or...
by Doug Mayo | Feb 14, 2020
This week’s featured video, was produced by Greg Judy, the self-proclaimed, “Regenerative Rancher” from Green Pastures Farm in Missouri, to show how and why he uses an ATV round bale hay unroller for his cattle operation. The ATV nearly eliminates...
by Marcelo Wallau | Jan 31, 2020
Cleber Lopes de Sousa and Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Forage Team Most pasture acres in Florida are warm-season, perennial grasses; as winter comes, their production and nutritive value decrease. An alternative to overcome this shortfall of forage...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 17, 2020
This week’s featured video is a short documentary highlighting the sixth generation of the Carlton Family who operate Bull Hammock Ranch near Fort Pierce, Florida, that were recognized by NCBA’s Environmental Stewardship Award Program in 2015. The family...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 10, 2020
Some of the most challenging conversations, in almost any relationship, are the ones about money. This is certainly true as farmers and landowners negotiate lease agreements, or managers and workers negotiate salaries for the year ahead. It can be pretty challenging...
