by Doug Mayo | Feb 5, 2021
This week’s featured video was published by the Soil Health Institute to share the huge need to focus on improving the health and productivity of agricultural soils. With an ever growing world population, and shrinking acreage of productive farmland, the only...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 18, 2020
– This week’s featured video was produced by Fox 13 News to highlight research trials testing the potential of hop production in Florida. In the video, Charley Belcher interviews Dr. Shinsuke Agehara, UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department, Gulf Coast...
by John Doyle Atkins | Dec 11, 2020
The 54th Annual Santa Rosa County Farm Tour will be held virtually this year. The video tour is available for free on the UF/IFAS Extension Santa Rosa County Facebook page, the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners YouTube channel, or at the end of this...
by Ethan Carter | Oct 30, 2020
Unfortunately, Panhandle farmers have grown accustomed to setbacks during harvest season in recent years. Cotton and peanut harvests this fall have been disappointing again, with 2020 being the third straight year of pest and weather-related issues just prior to...
by Daniel J. Leonard | Oct 9, 2020
A few weeks ago, Hurricane Sally churned onshore and dumped an unrelenting amount of rain on the Florida Panhandle. Thankfully, Calhoun, Jackson and adjoining counties were spared the lashing winds, storm surge, and widespread power outages that our neighbors to the...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 9, 2020
This week’s featured video was produced by Coleen Larson and Lauren Butler, UF/IFAS Okeechobee County Extension, to provide a virtual tour of Larson Dairy, in Okeechobee, Florida. The video was created for 4-H and FFA youth as part of the annual Ona Youth Field...
