Friday Feature: Crop-Dusting – Calling in an Air Strike on Pests
This week's featured video was featured on Farmweek, a weekly ag show produced by Mississippi State Extension. Just as in the military when there are times a quick air strike is needed to subdue an enemy, farmers sometimes need an immediate pesticide application to...
Investigating a Rapid Decline in North Florida Corn Fields
De Broughton, Regional Specialized Row Crop Agent, Dr. Ian Small, Plant Pathologist, and Dr. Fanny Iriarte, Plant Disease Diagnostician - What are the Symptoms? In recent weeks, extension agents in various locations across North Florida (primarily in the Northeast)...
Management Strategies for Weaning Foals
Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS State Extension Horse Specialist Whether you are a small breeder producing one or two foals a year, or a much larger commercial operation, weaning can be a challenging time for the mare, foal and manager. Many factors affect the when, how...
June 2020 Weather Summary and July Outlook
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 years...
Hurricane Preparation and Recovery Guides for Florida Producers
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...
Friday Feature Video: United We Steak – Get Grillin’ America
This week's featured video was published by the Cattlemen's Beef Board as part of their BEEF It's What's for Dinner campaign. The have a whole new series information and of short videos called United We Steak. The video I chose to share is called "Get Grillin'...
Consider Insecticide Resistance When Controlling Horn Flies on Cattle
- Horn flies are among the most noticeable and serious pests that cattle must endure, particularly through the summer months. At least in part, because the pests are so visible (swarming the withers of a cow, sometimes by the thousands) most cattle producers are quite...
Kudzu Bugs Arriving in High Numbers in Legume Crops
Authored by Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent and Danielle Sprague, Jefferson County Extension Agent It's that time of year again, kudzu bugs (Megacopta cribraria) also referred to as globular stinkbugs, have recently been found in extremely high populations...
2020 Virtual Perennial Peanut Field Day
Ann Blount, Cheryl Mackowiak, Sunny Liao, Jose Dubeux, Kelly Thomas, Jung-Chen Liu, Victor Guerra, Adesuwa Erhunmwunse, Valerie Mendez, and Doug Mayo, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Forage Team For the past several years the Perennial Peanut...
Virtual Corn Silage Hybrid Tour
2020 has been a year of many challenges so far, but that didn’t stop our corn hybrid trial from being excellent! With cold nights and sunny days at the beginning of the season, great genetic material, and a fantastic dedication of the UF/IFAS Plant Science Research...