by Doug Mayo | Apr 19, 2024
This week’s featured video was published by NBC news to highlight new technology being utilized in farming. Large-scale vegetable farming is huge business in California, Arizona, and South Florida. This industry has been very reliant on migrant labor to be...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 12, 2024
This week’s featured video was published by John Deere to highlight new innovation for tractors with loader attachments. They have developed the technology to weigh round bales of hay, feed, or other products as you load the hay spear or bucket. According to...
by Muhammad Shahid | Dec 15, 2023
Muhammad Shahid and Muneer Rehman, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Chitosan is an edible coating material used to extend the shelf life of perishable commodities. It is a natural polysaccharide derived from chitin, a main component found in...
by external | Sep 29, 2023
Audrey Marchek, Ted Schroeder, Robert Larson, and Jake Hefley, Kansas State University In December 2022, the framework design for CalfDex, a newly available animal data recording tool, was completed. Developers of CalfDex are now in the process of finalizing...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 25, 2023
This past week, at the National County Agricultural Agent Association Conference in Iowa, I attended a training provided by Merck Animal Health where they discussed products that have recently been released by the company. One of the products discussed was Banamine...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 4, 2023
This week’s featured video, published by FieldView (Digital Farming Software Platform), is a documentary that follows an Iowa corn & soybean farmer through one growing season. Check out the 24-minute video that shares the highlights of a single crop year...