by Josh Freeman | Feb 11, 2022
Many people involved in agriculture in the Florida Panhandle knew Arnie Forrester. He grew cotton, peanuts, and cantaloupe on his farm in Jackson County, near Bascom. Arnie tragically lost his life in a vehicle accident on January 1, 2022. These are a few memories...
by external | Oct 1, 2021
Ramdeo Seepaul, Research Assistant Scientist, and Sheeja George, Agricultural Scientist, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center From stacks of paper notes stating problems in farm fields to instant solutions delivered at the click of a button on the...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 6, 2021
This week’s featured video was produced by the Florida Department of Agriculture for the Florida Museum to be presented at the Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition exhibit that travel around the state back in 2011. Since we are celebrating the...
by Doug Mayo | Jul 23, 2021
Florida has a rich agricultural history, but one of the historic facts that Florida cattlemen take great pride in is that cattle were introduced into what later became the United States through Florida in 1521. Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish conquistador who first...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 11, 2021
This week’s featured video was published on YouTube by 16mm Educational Films. This 16-minute video shares the history of the Corn Belt in the Midwestern US. In the documentary they also talk about how corn was used in the 1960s for feeding livestock and other...
by Doug Mayo | Apr 16, 2021
This week’s featured video was a historic Encyclopedia Britannica short film stored on the Charlie Dean Archives YouTube channel. The 13-minute film shares a year in the life of a Kansas farm family in 1956. They faced a number of challenges each year, but...
