by Doug Mayo | Aug 14, 2020
This week’s featured video is a sad story produced by the Weather Channel as a follow up to Monday’s derecho that wreaked havoc through the Midwest. This story is something Panhandle farmers can certainly relate to following hurricanes, but this storm...
by Doug Mayo | Jul 10, 2020
June was a pretty good weather month for much of the Panhandle. Rainfall was not at all uniform, but was sufficient to remove most of Florida from the drought monitor at month’s end. Temperatures rose through the month, but were not extreme, compared to other...
by Doug Mayo | Jul 10, 2020
The USDA Southeast Climate Hub with other USDA agencies and university Extension experts, have developed a set of guides for Florida agricultural producers. The guides are each tailored to a specific agricultural commodity and designed to help produces prepare...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 5, 2020
Rainfall May was a more typical month than others have been lately, but that was not a good thing. It was not as hot as typical, but it was certainly dry. In the map to the left above, you can see that other than Calhoun, Gulf, and Liberty Counties, most of the...
by Doug Mayo | May 15, 2020
– Rainfall April 2020 was a fairly normal weather month in Florida for a change. In the two maps above, you can see the estimated rainfall and the departure from historic average rainfall in Florida for April 2020. In the map to the left, the areas in green...
by Ethan Carter | May 1, 2020
Although many businesses and sectors of our economy have been shut down since mid-March, the agricultural industry has still been hard at work. (#Stillfarming) Throughout the month of March, corn fields were planted across the Panhandle. They are currently one of our...
