by Doug Mayo | Apr 13, 2018
Rainfall After such an unusually warm and wet month in February, temperatures were more normal in March, but the rainfall was well below normal for most of the Panhandle. The graphic above shows actual rainfall and the departure from normal for the region. From the...
by Judy Biss | Apr 6, 2018
Farmers and ranchers must manage traditional business practices to be successful, but they also deal with the many challenges of ever changing weather. Rain, wind, and temperature are important and obvious aspects of weather that producers track on a daily basis, but...
by btillman | Apr 6, 2018
Peanut seed is likely on its way to many buying point locations this week and next week, as peanut planting will begin soon in the Florida Panhandle. Planting is already underway in Levy County and surrounding areas, where soil temperatures are warming quickly...
by Doug Mayo | Mar 9, 2018
Talk about a tale of two months. It seemed like we went from winter to spring in just one month. In the Panhandle, January 2018 was a pretty normal winter month, temperature wise, but was much drier than normal. February 2018 set records for the warmest February...
by Doug Mayo | Mar 2, 2018
Clyde W. Fraisse, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of Florida – IFAS – http://agroclimate.org/ March 1, 2018, La Niña conditions are present in the tropical Pacific Ocean and...
by Chris Prevatt | Jan 19, 2018
Weather had a dramatic impact on range, pasture, and hay production in the Southern Region in 2017. The dramatic extremes of excessive rainfall received in Texas and Florida from hurricanes, to abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions across the Southern U.S....
