by Les Harrison | Aug 31, 2012
There is a growing anxiety about the corn harvest with its high moisture content and lack of available storage. Field conditions are wet making it hard for equipment to cross fields. Cotton fields need to dry out or disease pressure will rise. Diseases such as white...
by Les Harrison | Aug 24, 2012
After a dry spring, the return of semi-regular rains in June was greatly appreciated by farmer and ranchers in Wakulla County. The situation reversed with Tropical Storm Debbie’s 20 plus inches of rain in late June. Through July and into August the rains have come...
by Jennifer Bearden | Aug 24, 2012
The peak of hurricane season is weeks away. Here are a few helpful tips to prepare a livestock operation for a tropical storm or hurricane. Livestock are safer in a large pasture free of debris. Barns can easily fail during a storm, leaving the animals injured,...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 10, 2012
Through the first seven months of 2012, Marianna is right at 60 year historic average of 34.2 inches. Certainly the rainfall and more moderate temperatures have been welcome relief for farmers, when compared to the last two years, but it has just been an average year...
