Hurricane Sally Caused Major Damage to Escambia County Crop Fields
- Hurricane Sally was a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds at landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama (11 miles west of FL), but in rural farming regions of the Florida Panhandle it was not just the high winds, but the tremendous rainfall from this slow moving storm...
Consider Reducing Plastic Bed Size to Reduce Produce Input Costs
Josh Freeman, UF/IFAS Vegetable Extension Specialist, North Florida Research and Education Center - Quincy Have you ever sat back and wondered why some things we commonly use are designed the way they are? Let’s consider the bed design that we use for...
Seeding Rate Affects Performance of Oats and Black Oats in North Florida
Jose Dubeux, D. Abreu, L. Dantas, A. Blount, E. Santos, D. Jaramillo, F. van Cleef, Carlos Garcia, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Introduction Black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) is a cool-season annual grass that has a Mediterranean origin and...
Cotton Defoliation Tips from Dr. Brown, AU Cotton Specialist
It is that time of the year, and peanut harvest has started in the Panhandle. Peanuts might start off the harvest, but cotton will be ready soon. Most growers are well acquainted with cotton defoliation, but Dr. Steve Brown, Auburn Cotton Specialist, met and...
Cogongrass – Now’s the Best Time to Start Control
Cogongrass is by no means a new issue in Northwest Florida, this highly aggressive, invasive species has been causing problems in pastures, pine plantations, rights-of way, and about everywhere else you can think of for many years. Just because cogongrass is not new...
Cotton Marketing News: Hurricane Sally Apparently Not a Market Mover
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - I knew we were possibly in for disappointment price-wise when I read a pre-landfall news headline that said that the market was “mulling” Hurricane Sally. In other words, not sure of what the impacts, if any,...
Cool-Season Forage Update Webinar – September 24
Typically this time of year, Dr. Ann Blount, UF/IFAS Forage Breeder, makes the rounds speaking to cattle producer groups about cool-season forages, however this year we cannot host in-person fall meetings. With that in mind, UF/UFAS Extension Holmes County and...
With Precautions in Place, Farms Are Open for the 13th Annual Farm Tour – October 10-11
Although the pandemic has changed many aspects of our daily lives, we still need to eat. Therefore, more than ever, we must value our local food systems and the diversity of crops and other products our farmers and ranchers continue to grow and produce. To showcase...
Panhandle Cotton: An Important Crop for a Sustainable Future
When one thinks of the Florida Panhandle, I’m guessing cotton isn’t the first thing that comes to mind, but maybe it should be! With over 100,000 acres in cultivation annually (2017 USDA Census of Agriculture), a crop worth $52.5 million, cotton dominates cultivated...
Friday Feature: Calibrating Your Grain Drill
Few things are more frustrating in farming than trying to plant and not getting the right amount of out of the planter. There is a way to calculate how much seed is being planted to calibrate the settings. I know it is not quite time to plant cool-season forages and...