2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook
Rainfall 2024 will be remembered by most farmers and ranchers as a dry growing season, but rainfall totals for the whole year were highly variable. The map above to the left shows NOAA's estimate of annual rainfall in 2024 across Florida. Multiple hurricanes were...
2024 Panhandle Ag e-News Reader’s Choice Awards
The Panhandle Ag Extension Team would like to thank our email subscribers and social media followers for your interest and support of Panhandle Ag e-News in 2024. Keep sharing those emails, posts, and tweets to help us spread the word, so more farmers and ranchers...
2025 Florida Bull Test Sale – January 18
The 25th Annual Florida Bull Test Sale, will be held at the North Florida Research and Education Center's Beef Research Unit, on Saturday, January 18, 2025. The objective of this test is to evaluate the performance potential and breeding soundness of consigned...
Private Pesticide Applicator/Core Exam Prep – January 29
UF/IFAS Extension, Calhoun County will host a Private Applicator & Core Pesticide Applicator Exam Review class on Wednesday, January 29th at the Calhoun County Extension Office, 20816 Central Ave E, Blountstown, FL 32424. If you need a restricted use pesticide...
Georgia Conservation Tillage Alliance Annual Meeting – February 18 & 19
Farmers are invited to join the Georgia Conservation Tillage Alliance for their 2025 Annual Meeting, that will be held in the East/West Conference Room, at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture (1392 Whiddon Mill Road), in Tifton, Georgia. The meeting will focus...
Friday Feature: U.S. Farming from 1865 to 1900
This week's featured video is a 1968 16mm film that shares the history and challenges of farming in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900s. Farmers in the late 1800s had some significant obstacles to overcome with almost no unified voice. This was...
2024 Average Farmland Rental Rates and Worker Wages Summary
Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers. As we prepare for 2025, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....
Dangers of Toxic Algae Blooms for Cattle: Risks and Prevention Strategies
Monalisa Lima, Ameer Megahed, Alireza Shahraki, João Bittar, DVM, MSc., PhD., UF Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Lauren Butler, UF/IFAS Extension Okeechobee County Introduction The rapid proliferation of certain toxic microorganisms...
Florida Cattle Market Update: A Recap of 2024
Total receipts in Florida (cattle sold) for 2024 are 317,041 compared to 355,455 last year, a 10.8 percent difference (12/12/2024 Florida Weekly Auction Report). The fall-run of lower prices is behind us, as prices have started rising, as they typically do in November...
La Nina Impacts Still Expected in Latest Seasonal Outlook
Pam Knox, Director of the UGA Weather Network and Agricultural Climatologist The latest seasonal outlooks for temperature, precipitation, and seasonal drought were issued December 19. They still show the likely impact of the La Nina that is expected to be declared any...