Friday Feature: Beyond the Fencerows with Zippy Duval
This weeks featured video highlights American Farm Bureau's President, Zippy Duval and his passion to share the story of agriculture. The video, called "Beyond the Fencerows: Agriculture in the Words of Zippy Duval" shares the mission of Farm Bureau, to be the voice...
Hair, Hide Color, Heat, and Humidity – Connecting the Four H’s of Florida Cattle Production
Florida is a hot place. Hot places are hard on cattle performance. Those two facts have complicated cattle production in Florida since the first imports were offloaded from the boat nearly five hundred years ago. Since that day, the debate over how to address these...
Is it Cost-effective to Apply Nematicides to Field Corn?
Zane Grabau, UF/IFAS Entomology & Nematology Department & Patrick Troy, Regional Row Crop Agent Plant-parasitic nematodes, including sting, root-knot (RKN), and stubby-root nematodes among others can cause significant damage to Florida field corn. Nematicide...
US Cattle Herd still Expanding
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released their January cattle inventory report on January 31st. For the beef cattle industry this is the annual supply report card. The total number of cattle and calves rose 2% from 91.9 million head on January 1, 2016 to...
January Weather Summary and Spring Outlook
Compared to December, January was pretty mild up until Sunday January 22, 2017, which was a scary, and really stormy day with high winds, tornado warnings and heavy rains as a cold front rumbled across the Panhandle. The unusually warm temperatures fueled a storm...
Alabama Cooperative Extension offers Training for use of Dicamba and 2,4-D Resistant Crops
Alabama Cooperative Extension will offer training for anyone who will be applying auxin herbicides to dicamba or 2,4-D tolerant crops. While mandatory for Alabama farmers, Florida farmers can also attend these educational classes. See the table below for the date,...
Friday Feature: Grain Bin Entrapment
This week's the featured video is not a pleasant topic, but it is a message that needs to be shared with every farmer, family member, and farm worker who may work with loose grain and feeds stored in bulk bins. Bulk grain and feed bins, or large grain carts can...
High-Fiber Cotton and Peanut Byproducts aid Free-Choice Cattle Feeding
Nicolas DiLorenzo, State Beef Specialist, University of Florida NFREC What can you feed in bulk to cattle free-choice? One of the most common questions that county agents and state specialists receive this time of the year is: what commodity feed can I use to...
New Herbicide Resistant Crop Varieties Offer New Tools for Weed Management in 2017
Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent, Jay Ferrell, and Ramon Leon, UF/IFAS Weed Speciaslits 2017 will be a landmark year for row crop agriculture, as several long awaited herbicide technologies have finally been released by the EPA to help farmer’s combat troublesome...
Managing Dicamba Drift when using New Dicamba Resistant Cotton Varieties
Jay Ferrell, & Ramon Leon, UF/IFAS Weed Speciaslits R. and Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent After many years in development, dicamba use in tolerant cotton varieties will likely be fully approved for the 2017 growing season. As everyone is well aware, there...