Freezer Beef Boot Camp – Tuesdays in July
- There has been a tremendous spike in interest from cattle producers to begin to make the transition from marketing live cattle to marketing beef. In an effort to support those producers and answer their questions UF/IFAS Extension Holmes County and state extension...
Cotton Marketing News: Neutral Market Continues
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - Futures Prices USDA’s Acreage report, the first estimate of actual acres planted, will be out next week on Tuesday, June 30th. USDA’s Prospective Plantings report back at the end of March said that farmers...
Longleaf Pine Private Landowner Incentive Program – Apply through July 8
- Source: FDACS - Florida Forest Service The primary objective of the Longleaf Pine Private Landowner Incentives Program is to increase the acreage of healthy longleaf pine ecosystems in Florida by helping non-industrial private forest landowners to make the long-term...
Friday Feature: Peterson Brother’s Net Rap Music Video
The Peterson Farm Brothers recently published another of their famous zany farm videos. Their latest video, called "The Net Wrap," is a rap song dedicated to bailing alfalfa hay on their Kansas Farm. The Peterson Brothers are fifth generation Kansas farm boys in...
Sorghum Silage – A Cost-effective Alternative for Backgrounding Weaned Cattle
- Nicolas DiLorenzo, UF/IFAS Beef Specialist, and Federico Podversich, Graduate Student, UF Department of Animal Sciences The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only our daily lives, but also most of the agricultural markets. The cattle market is no...
Squash Bugs – Always a Problem in Cucurbits
Life Cycle The squash bug, Anasa tristis, is a common insect pest of squash and other cucurbits. Squash bugs have a six to eight week life cycle, and can have up to three generations per year in Florida. They generally lay their eggs on the lower surface of leaves,...
Cotton Market Commentary: Mid-June Summary
Thursday—June 18, 2020 Here’s the situation and the question on everyone’s mind. It’s now past mid-June. Typically by this time, the market has presented growers with at least one “decent” opportunity to market/price a portion of the upcoming crop. Well, I doubt...
CDC COVID19 Farm Worker Safety Guidance
- Farm workers are actively engaged in produce and other fresh commodity harvests all across the country. Earlier this week during a press conference, Governor Ron DeSantis pointed out that a significant percentage of the recent rise in COVID19 positive cases in...
Friday Double Feature: Bishop Farms’ Headquarters Barn Mural
This week's featured video is one I created to share something neat that I saw recently. Hurricane Michael devastated farms in Jackson County, but many of the local farms have rebuilt their facilities better than before. One such example is the new headquarters barn...
Important Considerations for Dicamba Application in Dicamba Resistant Crops
Pratap Devkota, UF/IFAS Weed Specialist, West Florida Research and Education Center On June 3, 2020 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the registration of Xtendimax, Engenia, and FeXapan herbicide labels. Since this recent development, the US EPA has issued a...