Featured Video: Florida Farm Wins 2025 Farm Dog of the Year
This week's featured video was published by American Farm Bureau. Each year, at the American Farm Bureau Convention, a Farm Dog of the Year is recognized. In 2025, the winner was a guardian dog from a Florida Horse Farm. The winner of the 2025 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of...
Check the Engine and Transmission before Bull Buying
Whenever someone gets a new truck there are always two questions you have for them: What engine does it have? Which transmission did you get? These questions translate perfectly to bull sale season; when you purchase a bull, aside from all the major upgrades and...
Best Florida Grown Hay in the 2024 Southeastern Hay Contest
The 2024 Southeastern Hay Contest, held in partnership with Massey Ferguson and the Sunbelt Ag Expo, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a record 496 entries representing nine states! Florida participated with 55 entries from five counties: Levy (2), Suwannee (6),...
Soaking Horse Hay During Cold Weather
It’s cold outside, and we are all working to keep our livestock in the best condition possible as we head into another week of our own version of the “Arctic in the Southeast!" Meanwhile, cattle and other livestock tend to do well in the cold. One of the ways we keep...
Featured Video: President Carter Selling Boiled Peanuts
Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, and was raised just outside of Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm. Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024. Carter served as the 39th President from 1977-1981. To pay tribute to Jimmy Carter's life, the Georgia Peanut...
Florida Soils are an Indispensable Natural Resource
Dr. Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS Soil Scientist, North Florida Research and Education Center - Quincy Soil is more than dirt. A healthy soil supports a healthy ecosystem and society. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt aptly stated, “A nation that destroys its soil, destroys...
Managing Pine Stands for Straw Production
Landowners and managers are always looking for ways to maximize the production value of their planted pine stands. Marketing pine straw is an alternative management practice, which has the potential to do just that. Pine straw is great for weed suppression in...
Crops and Cattle: Could this be the Path to Sustainable Agriculture for the Southeast?
By: Olivia Maule, Ashley Kanobroski, and Marcelo Wallau The integration of crops and livestock was how agriculture evolved: crops providing grain and fodder, animals providing nutrient cycling and meat. With the advent of modern agriculture and greater access to...
2025 Florida Bull Test Sale EPD Cheat Sheets
Sorting through all of the data in a sale catalog can be a daunting task. The VRDEC (Visual Representation of Data for Evaluation and Comparison) Bull Selection Tool tables below are intended to make the task a little easier. The tables feature the sale lots...
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...