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...
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....