by Doug Mayo | Jan 17, 2025
Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, and was raised just outside of Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm. Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024. Carter served as the 39th President from 1977-1981. To pay tribute to Jimmy Carter’s life, the Georgia...
by Cheryl Mackowiak | Jan 10, 2025
Dr. Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS Soil Scientist, North Florida Research and Education Center – Quincy Soil is more than dirt. A healthy soil supports a healthy ecosystem and society. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt aptly stated, “A nation that destroys its soil,...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 10, 2025
The Panhandle Ag Extension Team would like to thank our email subscribers and social media followers for your interest and support of Panhandle Ag e-News in 2024. Keep sharing those emails, posts, and tweets to help us spread the word, so more farmers and ranchers...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 10, 2025
This week’s featured video is a 1968 16mm film that shares the history and challenges of farming in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900s. Farmers in the late 1800s had some significant obstacles to overcome with almost no unified voice. ...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 20, 2024
Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers. As we prepare for 2025, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....
by Hannah Baker | Dec 20, 2024
Total receipts in Florida (cattle sold) for 2024 are 317,041 compared to 355,455 last year, a 10.8 percent difference (12/12/2024 Florida Weekly Auction Report). The fall-run of lower prices is behind us, as prices have started rising, as they typically do in November...
