Friday Feature: Soil Health – Theory of Change
This week's featured video was published by the Soil Health Institute to share the huge need to focus on improving the health and productivity of agricultural soils. With an ever growing world population, and shrinking acreage of productive farmland, the only way to...
Poisonous Plants Suspected Cause of Cattle Deaths in the Panhandle
Ann Blount, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, João Bittar, UF/CVM Extension Beef Veterinarian, Adam Stern-UF/CVM Veterinary Forensic Pathologist, and Evie Blount, UF/IFAS Extension Gadsden County 4-H Agent - Livestock producers beware! Especially during the winter...
Progress of Carinata Research in the Panhandle
- Ramdeo Seepaul, Ian Small, Sheeja George, David Wright, North Florida Research and Education Center, and Michael Mulvaney, West Florida Research and Education Center Carinata is grown primarily as a sustainable source of non-edible oils, which can be refined into...
Making Wheat and Peanuts Less Allergenic
Source: Adityarup "Rup" Chakravorty, Crop Science Society of America - Science News The United States Department of Agriculture identifies a group of “big eight” foods that causes 90% of food allergies. Among these foods are wheat and peanuts. Sachin Rustgi, a...
Friday Feature: All Electric Utility Tractors
This week's featured video shares the story of the development of the Solectrac all-electric utility tractor by Steve Heckeroth, Founder and CEO. The company is still in the early production and development stage of tractors. The Solectrac 40-horse utility tractor...
Don’t Forget About the Bulls – Pre-Breeding Management
- The relatively mild winter climate in the Deep South offers cattlemen a fairly wide range of options in relation to the timing of successful breeding/calving seasons. The variation in systems makes the timing of this article a bit tricky, but there are a lot of...
Fungi Biological Control of Citrus Pests
Xavier Martini, UF/IFAS North Florida REC, Department of Entomology, and Pasco Avery, UF/IFAS Indian River REC, Department of Entomology Cold hardy citrus is targeted by a various number of pests including scales, mites, and leafminers. In the absence of Asian citrus...
Cotton Seed Coat Fragments – A Serious Issue for Panhandle Farmers in 2020
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 Alabama,...
Cotton Marketing News: Cotton Enjoying One Heck of a Ride – But Caution Ahead
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - Old crop March futures pushed above 81 cents this week. New crop December topped 77 cents. Old crop was down a little to close out the week, but cotton enjoyed another good week due to several positive...
Friday Feature: Thank You to Health Care Workers Cowboy Style
Nebraska Rancher David Shuler has a holiday tradition of sharing cattle art with a feed wagon, his cattle herd, and a drone video camera. For 2020, he wanted to say thank you to the first responders and health care workers who have worked so hard this year during the...