by Jennifer Bearden | Sep 18, 2015
The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, has been very active this summer in Northwest Florida. Typically, we are talking about grain sorghum when we warn about this pest. However, the pest was found to be significantly damaging forage sorghum in Okaloosa County....
by Ann Blount | Aug 14, 2015
Ann Blount, Patricio Munoz, Jose Dubeux, Joao Vendramini, Ali Babar, Kevin Kenworthy, and Ken Quesenberry (North Florida Research and Education Center, Department of Agronomy, and the Range Cattle Research and Education Center) The 2015 cool-season forage line-up is...
by John Doyle Atkins | May 8, 2015
Dogfennel is one of the most commonly occurring pasture weeds in Florida. University of Florida Weed Specialists, Brent. Sellers and Jay. Ferrel developed a publication specifically to address this troublesome pasture weed. Dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) is an...
by Ann Blount | May 8, 2015
Ann Blount, Forage Breeder, NFREC-Marianna After a very cold and wet winter across much of the south, many of us are still reeling from low hay inventories and delayed winter forage growth. With the last few days of night temperatures above 50 0F, many of our winter...
by Mark Mauldin | May 8, 2015
We are well into spring and a wide variety of plants are showing off their colorful blooms. As lovely as most of the blooms are, some springtime colors are an unwelcome sight. Such is the case with the showy, white seedhead that is produced by Cogongrass (Imperata...