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...
by Doug Mayo | Mar 12, 2021
This week’s featured video is a historic film used to recruit Alabama farmers into the Tennessee Valley Cooperative, circa 1950. This film merges the Alabama Extension Service, research from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (became Auburn in 1960), and a...
by Doug Mayo | Nov 13, 2020
Dr. Pete Vergot, Northwest District Director & Doug Mayo, Jackson County Extension Director On Friday, November 6, 2020, Shepherd “Shep” Eubanks lost his battle with cancer at the age of 58. He spent 32 years working for UF/IFAS Extension in Columbia,...
by Daniel J. Leonard | Sep 18, 2020
When one thinks of the Florida Panhandle, I’m guessing cotton isn’t the first thing that comes to mind, but maybe it should be! With over 100,000 acres in cultivation annually (2017 USDA Census of Agriculture), a crop worth $52.5 million, cotton dominates cultivated...
