by Doug Mayo | Sep 30, 2022
This week’s featured video was produced by the University of Texas at Tyler’s South West Ag Center to address a serious issue, the mental health of farmers. In this video, Grant Heinrich, a Lubbock farmer and crop duster, shares his experience with mental...
by wickens carissa | Aug 26, 2022
Carissa Wickens, UF/IFAS Extension Equine Specialist, Department of Animal Sciences During the summer months in Florida, we expect periods of high heat and humidity, but exposure to extreme temperatures when the heat index (how hot it really feels when the...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 10, 2022
Last week we shared the Noble Foundation’s 1/128 sprayer calibration video for standard boom sprayers. This week’s featured video is a Do-It-Yourself Video produced by the Noble Foundation for calibrating a boomless sprayer. Boomless sprayers have become...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 28, 2022
Cold weather is forecast for this weekend, but how cold will it get in your area? The National Weather Service has developed a nice tool to help with this: https://www.weather.gov/forecastpoints. Once on the website you can either use a pointer on a map or the name...
by external | Dec 18, 2020
Brett Bultemeier, UF/IFAS Pesticide Information Office – The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) applies to farms and operations that produce agricultural plant products. It was designed to protect those employees/workers that might encounter pesticides as part of...
by external | Jul 31, 2020
Source: FDACS News Release July 28, 2020 The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) is continuing to warn Floridians about unsolicited packages of seeds received through the mail. The seed packets, which may arrive unexpectedly in packages...
