by Doug Mayo | Feb 4, 2022
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) released the January 1 Cattle Inventory Report on January 31, 2022. These reports are a little confusing, as the year listed is the date of the report (Jan 1), but they are actually measuring the...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 28, 2022
Cold weather is forecast for this weekend, but how cold will it get in your area? The National Weather Service has developed a nice tool to help with this: https://www.weather.gov/forecastpoints. Once on the website you can either use a pointer on a map or the name...
by Robbie Jones | Jan 14, 2022
A theme I have seen this past year is pasture weeds becoming a major nuisance for landowners and cattlemen. Weeds don’t just reach a threshold overnight, there is a time we can make an impact without breaking the farm budget. However, many times pasture weeds have...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 10, 2021
With so much rain this growing season, even producing average quality hay this year was a real challenge. Not only was the weather a challenge, but the cost of fertilizer was much higher too. So, you sure don’t want to waste any of the precious hay you grew or...
by ndilorenzo | Nov 5, 2021
Nicolas DiLorenzo, UF/IFAS Beef Specialist, North Florida Research and Education Center – Marianna Every fall, the baling of the last cutting of hay brings an end to the perennial forage season. Fall is also the beginning of another important...
by external | Oct 8, 2021
Jennifer Whitaker, Georgia Farm Bureau The Asian Longhorned Tick – an invasive species with the potential to cause severe anemia and tick fever in livestock – has been positively identified on a cow in Pickens County (North Central GA), the Georgia...
