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...
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...
Cotton Marketing News: Will Cotton Acres Respond to Price?
Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist Cotton prices continue to struggle. Every attempt to gain some ground is met with headwind or negative news/forces leading prices to retreat. There are two “fences” in this market—one at 72 to 73 cents (the front fence) and...
Friday Feature: Carol of the Carillon Bells at UF
This week's featured video is a special holiday treat from the University of Florida. You may have seen Century Tower on the main campus (built in 1953 to commemorate 100 years of UF), or at least seen pictures of the iconic landmark of the University of Florida...
North Florida 2024 Corn Variety Test Performance
Sudeep Sidhu, UF/IFAS Agronomy Specialist, and Gabrielle Alves Comitre, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center In 2024, an irrigated corn variety evaluation was conducted at two locations: North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC)-Suwanee...