by Doug Mayo | Apr 23, 2021
If you are a weather enthusiast, and follow the series of regular weather summary updates through this blog, you know there was some concern from the winter and 1st quarter 2021 outlooks in the Southeastern U.S. Fortunately, the Climate Predication Center (CPC)...
by bobhoch | Apr 16, 2021
UF/IFAS Extension Suwannee Valley Weekly Watermelon Crop Update – summarized by Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren, Tyler Pittman, Tatiana Sanchez, Luke Harlow, Jay Capasso, Sylvia Wills, Dan Fenneman, Keith Wynn, Danielle...
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...
