Thinning: One of The Most Important Forest Management Practices
Thinning is an important part of any forest management plan. Getting it right can be the difference between successful outcomes and persistent problems. One of the most common questions foresters get is, “Should I Thin My Trees?” It is an important question to ask...
Crop Farmers Implementing BMPs in the Chipola River Basin
In the Florida Panhandle, dryland row crop farmers, Shedrick McGriff, Jackson County, and Phillip Melvin, Calhoun County, implement Best Management Practices or BMPs that improve their farming operations while also protecting water quality in the Chipola River...
USDA Animal Disease Traceability Update: EID Tags and More
Individually identifying animals is nothing new for the cattle industry. While many producers are familiar with traditional visual tags, there are some changes coming down the pipeline for individual animal identification. The talk of animal traceability has been...
Weekly Watermelon Update #10 – May 20
Bob Hochmuth, Regional Specialized Extension Agent - Vegetable Crops, with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren (Levy), Tyler Pittman (Gilchrist), Tatiana Sanchez (Alachua), Luke Harlow (Bradford), Dan Fenneman (Madison), Keith Wynn (Hamilton),...
Research Review: Frequency of DDGS Supplementation Impacts Gains of Yearlings on Grass
Editor's note: This article describes research conducted in Nebraska, a very different environment, on yearling stocker cattle with a different management system than cow-calf ranches in the Florida Panhandle. However, the results from this research...
Cotton Marketing News: Has Cotton’s Downturn Bottomed Out?
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Nothing is worse than to have land, money, and other resources already committed to production and watching the market (and the value of expected production) decline. Farming is a biological process and takes...
Friday Feature: Farmer’s Lilac Labyrinth Brings Community to the Farm to Celebrate Memorial Day
This week's featured video was published by KARE News 11, Minneapolis, Minnesota to share something unique in their area. Mike Nistler, Cold Spring, Minnesota, planted a Lilac Labyrinth (maze) on the edge of his farm 20 years ago near the highway. Annually, Nistler...
Taking an Integrated Approach to Internal Parasite Control for Small Ruminants
Anyone who raises livestock in the Southeastern United States knows that gastrointestinal or internal parasites are a pervasive issue, particularly in Florida's hot and humid climate. This environment necessitates year-round strategies for controlling intestinal...
Citrus Sunburn: A Physiological Disorder
Muhammad Adnan Shahid, UF/IFAS NFREC, Assistant Professor of Horticulture, and Shahid Iqbal, UF/IFAS NFREC, Postdoc Scholar, Horticulture Sciences Introduction Sunburn, also known as sunscald, is a physiological disorder in citrus and other fruit species caused...
April 2024 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook
Rainfall April was another drier than average month for the Western Panhandle Counties, but was really wet east of the Apalachicola River. This has been an ongoing trend from last year, where rainfall is very uneven in the Panhandle The map to the left above, shows...