by Isaac Esquivel | Apr 25, 2025
We are now a few weeks into our planting the season for cotton and peanut, with some planting as early as the first week of April. As the planting season continues, I wanted to bring a few things to your attention relating to early-season insect pests. Our first pest...
by Ian Stone | Apr 25, 2025
As the weather warms up, the winter respite from ticks and the concerns they can bring comes to a close. Ticks can be particularly troublesome and prevalent in early spring, and it is not just our pets and livestock we should be concerned about. Tick bite prevention...
by Marcelo Wallau | Apr 25, 2025
Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, Ashley Kanobroski (UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, Forage Team), Olivia Maule (CALS Faculty Instructional Resources and Support Team), Benjamin Anderson, Assistant Professor in the UF Department of Environmental and...
by Nicholas Dufault | Apr 11, 2025
Dr. Nicholas Dufault and Rezel Borines, UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department With potato and watermelon seasons underway in North Florida, growers are keeping a close eye on disease risk. One way to get ahead of potential problems is with the Spore Report—a new...
by Mark Mauldin | Apr 11, 2025
As of April 1, 2025, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) has transitioned away from their previous pesticide websites to a new aggregated Division of Agricultural Environmental Services (AES) Licensing Portal – all pesticide...
by btillman | Apr 4, 2025
A new high yielding and disease resistant peanut variety was released in January 2024 by the University of Florida’s, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC) in Marianna, Florida. The new variety...
