Utilizing Winter Forage Blends for Insurance Against Climate Chaos
Cheryl Mackowiak, Soil Scientist, UF/IFAS North Florid Research and Education Center What do you get when you follow a mild la Niña fall with a subfreezing, multi-day cold snap in Florida? You get Climate Chaos with a lot of winter forage damage and unhappy livestock....
Impacts of the Christmas Freeze on Forages – What Happened and What to Do Now
By: Dr. Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Extension Forage Specialist; Mark Mauldin, UF/IFAS Extension Washington County; Dr. Ali Babar, Associate Professor UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Cool-season annual forages are widely used in North Florida grazing systems. Florida’s...
2022 Weather Summary and 1st Quarter Outlook
Rainfall 2022 was a unique weather year in the Panhandle. After several wetter than normal years, the end of 2022 got significantly drier than it has been in recent years. The map above shows the comparison of actual rainfall estimates with historic average in...
Apply Early for an Aldicarb Application Permit if Treating Fields with AgLogic 15GG
Pesticide application is one of the primary ways to treat plant-parasitic nematodes and insects, and AgLogic 15GG is one of the available options for use in cotton and peanut. Aldicarb is the active ingredient in AgLogic 15GG and is the same active ingredient...
Friday Feature: Barn2Door Online Farm Direct Sales
One thing that has changed dramatically in our country since 2020 is online sales of consumer products. This includes direct sales from farms of all types. The challenge is that much of the technology needed to make online sales work smoothly requires a significant...
2023 Florida Bull Test Sale – Performance Data Analysis
Sorting through all of the data to select bulls of interest from a bull sale catalog can be a daunting task, given the vast quantity of information provided. The VRDEC (Visual Representation of Data for Evaluation and Comparison) Bull Selection Tool tables below show...
Are You Familiar with Bovine Leukosis Virus in Cattle?
João H.J. Bittar, DVM, Ph.D., Ameer A. Megahed, DVM, Ph.D., Ahmadreza Mirzaei, DVM, PhD., Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida What is BLV? Bovine Leukosis is a lifelong infection caused by the...
Winter Beekeeping Tips to Keep Your Colonies Primed
With the new year upon us, this is a good time to redirect your attention to closer management of bee colonies. Tupelo season is not far away, and you’ll certainly want your bees healthy for the peak season. Feeding colonies as well as pest and disease management...
Friday Feature: Louisiana Crawfish Farming
In this week's featured video, Daniel Geneen documents a working tour of a Louisiana Crawfish and Rice Farming operation for the Eater YouTube Channel. This gives the whole concept of double cropping a whole new meaning. Rice farmers like Mike Frugé of Cajun Crawfish...
Cool-Season Fly Pests of Horses
Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS State Extension Horse Specialist Days are getting shorter, and nights are getting colder. Though the mosquito burden is subsiding, there are still fly pests of horses that seem to fair very well in the cooler months of the year in Florida. -...