Weed of the Week: Broomsedge

Weed of the Week: Broomsedge

Broomsedge is an economically important weed in the southern United States, with it typically being found in low fertility pastures. By itself, prescribed burning has little impact/control on Broomsedge as it only removes biomass above ground, and has little impact on...
Weed of the Week: Chickweed

Weed of the Week: Chickweed

According to Dr. Brent Sellers, UF Weed Specialist, weeds in pastures cost Florida ranchers an excess of $180 million annually. Weeds reduce forage yields and quality. Chickweed is a common winter annual, broad-leaf weed found across the Southeastern U.S., and is one...
Friday Feature:  Autonomous Drone Scouting

Friday Feature: Autonomous Drone Scouting

This week’s featured video was produced by American Robotics to introduce ScoutTM, a fully-automated drone system for farmers.  Scout features season-long automated crop scouting that is autonomous, or pre-programmed for launch, flight, imaging, landing,...
Useful Smartphone Apps for Cattle Ranchers

Useful Smartphone Apps for Cattle Ranchers

If you’re like me, you were really excited when you got your first smart phone or tablet because of all of the cool applications (apps) that were available to quickly guide you to useful information.  Once you had selected your favorite weather, radar, sports...