by Andrea Albertin | Sep 30, 2022
The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers producers technical and financial assistance to help them implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) on their operations. NRCS staff work with farmers, ranchers, and forest land managers to...
by external | Sep 30, 2022
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics The market continues to find ways to surprise and shock and sometimes make us happy and sometimes disappoint. If it can, the market has a way of proving all analysts wrong at some point. After trading...
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 external | Sep 16, 2022
Kirsten Romaguera, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communication Services Dean Pringle joins the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) as director of the North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC). He starts...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 16, 2022
This week’s featured video was published by a PBS Show called Reconnecting Roots that features host Gabe McCauley. McAuley and his team produced an episode of Reconnecting Roots focused on agriculture. In the video I chose to share this week, McAuley asked a...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 9, 2022
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) have successfully grown plants in lunar soil extracted from three NASA missions to the Moon. Rob Feral and Anna Lisa Paul, UF/IFAS Horticulture Department, were the first scientist to show that plants can be grown in...