by external | Mar 19, 2021
– On August 21, 2020, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Forest Service announced that registration for the Florida Timber Recovery Block Grant Program and the Florida Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Program was available to agricultural...
by Mark Mauldin | Feb 26, 2021
– It has been over two years since Hurricane Michael devastated the Central Panhandle. In that time tremendous strides have been made towards patching our part of the world back together. Some of the landscape is getting back to normal, but in some areas the...
by external | Jan 22, 2021
Ed Barnes, Agricultural and Environmental Research Division, Cotton Incorporated – Seed coat fragments (SCFs) have been a long-term issue for cotton. Outbreaks of SCFs occur sporadically every 3 to 5 years in a region of the U.S. In 2020 the region included...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 8, 2021
Rainfall 2020 was a year most people are happy to move on from for many reasons, but for much of the Panhandle weather was a major negative factor. The primary concern was heavy rainfall late in the growing season from Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, on top of an...
by Doug Mayo | Dec 11, 2020
Rainfall After several months of above average rainfall, La Niña kicked in, so November was a much drier month across the Panhandle. You can see in the map to the left, which shows November 2020 rainfall estimates, that the Panhandle ranged from 1-5″ in...
by Doug Mayo | Nov 6, 2020
Rainfall Historically, October is the driest month of the year in the Panhandle. After an extremely wet September, October was a welcome change for crop and hay producers trying to finish the harvest season. In the graphic above, the map to the left shows estimated...
