2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary

  Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers.  As we prepare for 2025, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....
Florida Cattle Market Update:  A Recap of 2024

Florida Cattle Market Update: A Recap of 2024

Total receipts in Florida (cattle sold) for 2024 are 317,041 compared to 355,455 last year, a 10.8 percent difference (12/12/2024 Florida Weekly Auction Report). The fall-run of lower prices is behind us, as prices have started rising, as they typically do in November...
La Nina Impacts Still Expected in Latest Seasonal Outlook

La Nina Impacts Still Expected in Latest Seasonal Outlook

Pam Knox, Director of the UGA Weather Network and Agricultural Climatologist The latest seasonal outlooks for temperature, precipitation, and seasonal drought were issued December 19. They still show the likely impact of the La Nina that is expected to be declared any...
Cotton Marketing News:  Will Cotton Acres Respond to Price?

Cotton Marketing News: Will Cotton Acres Respond to Price?

Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist Cotton prices continue to struggle.  Every attempt to gain some ground is met with headwind or negative news/forces leading prices to retreat. There are two “fences” in this market—one at 72 to 73 cents (the front fence) and...
Friday Feature:  Carol of the Carillon Bells at UF

Friday Feature: Carol of the Carillon Bells at UF

This week’s featured video is a special holiday treat from the University of Florida.  You may have seen Century Tower on the main campus (built in 1953 to commemorate 100 years of UF), or at least seen pictures of the iconic landmark of the University of...
2024 Panhandle Peanut Butter Challenge Results

2024 Panhandle Peanut Butter Challenge Results

Forty of Florida’s 67 counties, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), and the University of Florida’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) participated in the Peanut Butter Challenge in 2024.  In total, 30,831 jars​ (39,898...