Friday Feature:  Peanut Harvest with a 360° Camera

Friday Feature: Peanut Harvest with a 360° Camera

This week’s featured video was produced by the National Peanut Board to briefly show peanut harvest.  What is really neat about the video is that it was filmed with a 360° camera, so you can look all around the field and also have close up views of the equipment...
Friday Feature:  Agrivoltaics – Farming Under Solar Panels

Friday Feature: Agrivoltaics – Farming Under Solar Panels

This week’s featured video was published by Matt Ferrell to talk about Agrivoltaics.  I have had several people ask me about the concept of farming or grazing under solar panels.  With the push to seek alternative energy sources, solar farms are buying up farm...
Marketing Feeder Cattle at 6-Year Highs in 2022

Marketing Feeder Cattle at 6-Year Highs in 2022

  Chris Prevatt, UF/IFAS Livestock & Forage Economist, Range Cattle Research and Education Center Each year there are windows that allow producers to market feeder cattle near the high-end of the market. Cattle producers will likely be marketing cattle...
The Pollinating Power of Bumble Bees

The Pollinating Power of Bumble Bees

  There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. European honeybees provide about 85 percent of our pollinating activity that is vital for supplying one-quarter to one-third...
Friday Feature:  Herds West (1955 Beef Production)

Friday Feature: Herds West (1955 Beef Production)

This week’s featured video comes from the Charlie Dean Archives.  The video provides an overview of beef cattle production in the Western US in 1955.  Much of today’s modern beef production system was developed during this period that included cow-calf...