March Florida Cattle Market Price Watch
The August 2018 Feeder Cattle futures contract decreased by $11.30/cwt. during March. Based on this futures price decrease, August Feeder Cattle revenues decreased by approximately $90.40/head ($11.30/cwt. * 8.0 cwt.) on an 800-pound feeder steer, which amounts to...
Still Need the Mandatory Dicamba Resistant Crop Training?
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered new dicamba herbicide product formulations for making applications to dicamba tolerant cotton and soybean crops. As a result, many states were overwhelmed with drift complaints regarding sensitive crops....
Weed of the Week: Prickly Pear Cactus
Prickly Pear Cactus is not a pasture weed issue everywhere in Florida, but if you have them, they can be one of the most difficult weeds to control. Prickly Pear Cactus can reproduce through fragmentation, meaning that each pad can separate from the "mother plant" and...
Highlights from the UF/IFAS Panhandle Bee College
During Calhoun County Florida's spring break, 160 beekeepers from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and as far away as Iowa, gathered at the Blountstown High School for the 25th Annual UF/IFAS Bee College! Participants at this event learned from local, state, national, and...
Cotton Marketing News: Ok, Now This is the Number
On March 29, USDA released their Prospective Plantings report, which in my opinion, gets us much closer to what will eventually be the acres planted in 2018. The 13½ million acre neighborhood, or even higher, is what has been expected by many observers, and that’s...
Friday Feature: Shenandoah Dairy Video Farm Tour
This week's featured video was produced by Florida Dairy Farmers. The Florida Association of County Agricultural Agents (FACAA) toured Shenandoah Dairy, as part of their Mid-Year Meeting this week. I was fortunate enough to see this amazing farming operation in...
2017 UF/IFAS Cotton Variety Trial Results
Variety selection is a key decision for cotton producers each year. Variety performance is heavily dependent on environmental conditions and geography. Therefore, it is important for growers to select varieties based on multi-year research data from a similar...
Highlights and Presentations from the 2018 Forage Legume Conference
Jose Dubeux, Forage Management Specialist, North Florida Research and Education Center, lead the team that organized the Forage Legume Conference, that was held on March 15, 2018, in Marianna, Florida. There were 105 cattle and hay producers, industry representatives,...
Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
A report summary from the USDA Economic Research Service, James M. MacDonald, Robert A. Hoppe, and Doris Newton What Is the Issue? Farm production has been shifting to larger farms for many years—one element of broad-based changes in farm structure. However, the U.S....
Friday Feature: Pickle Cucumber Harvest
This week's featured video was produced by a member of the Panhandle Ag Extension Team. Matt Lollar, Horticulture Agent, Jackson County Extension, developed this video to show how those small cucumbers, that are so popular as pickles, are grown and harvested. The...