by Doug Mayo | Jul 18, 2025
Back in May, I attended the University of Florida’s 74th annual Beef Cattle Short Course, in Gainesville. The theme this year was, “RIDING THE HIGH TIDE – Decision Making in a Record Cattle Market.” There were a lot of great speakers that...
by Kalyn Waters | Jul 18, 2025
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County In the Southeast, every rancher is also a “grass farmer!” Our primary resource we depend on is forage. However,...
by Doug Mayo | Jul 18, 2025
As a high school student, I remember watching neat old movies about farming in FFA, so I always love finding these old films on YouTube. This week’s feature video was an Encyclopedia Britannica film produced to highlight modern corn farming in 1960. In the...
by Ray Bodrey | Jul 11, 2025
One the greatest threats to the western honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, is a mite species known as Varroa destructor. Unfortunately, the Florida Panhandle is within the range of this hive devastating pest. Oxalic acid treatment has been shown to work well against...
by jbittar | Jul 11, 2025
Bruna A. Feliciano; Beatriz S. Nemoto; Ameer A. Megahed; Alireza R. Shahraki; Viviani Gomes; João Bittar, UF/IFAS Beef Cattle Extension Veterinarian Leptospirosis (aka Lepto) is a disease caused by a spirochete bacterium belonging to the genus Leptospira and...
by Kalyn Waters | Jul 11, 2025
Brett Capra, University of Florida, Senior in Animal Sciences & UF/IFAS Extension Intern with Kalyn Waters, UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County One of the issues that can handicap production in the summer months is the struggle to get cattle to consistently consume...