Friday Feature: 2024 Farm Dog of the Year
This week's featured video was produced by American Farm Bureau to highlight the 2024 Farm Dog of the Year. Skippy, owned by Georgia Farm Bureau members Donald and Laura Adams, was selected as this year's winner. Donald was the victim of a serious farm accident that...
Boosting the Profitability of Your Cow Herd through Efficient Reproduction
Welcome to 2024! The last three years have been especially challenging for cattle ranchers. In 2020, the world stopped due to a strange new disease, COVID19, that forced restaurants to temporarily close, conferences to be canceled, schools to send kids home,...
2024 UGA Crop Comparison Tool and Crop Specific Budgets
Row crop farmers have an annual challenge of deciding which crops to grow in their rotation and how to utilize the land in their care this year. There is a great decision tool, provided by the University of Georgia, that is updated on an annual basis prior to the...
January 2024 – Florida Cattle Market Update
2024: A Year of Stabilizing, Expanding, or Both? On January 31st, 2024, USDA will release the bi-annual Cattle Inventory Report. We can expect to see that inventory will be low, much like we saw in 2014 and 2015, due to prolonged drought, high input costs and interest...
New Honey Bee Nutrition Guide Available Free to Download
Source: Honey Bee Health Coalition Beekeepers now have a valuable resource at their fingertips with the release of the latest comprehensive Honey Bee Nutrition Guide from the Honey Bee Health Coalition. The guide is a review and manual for supplemental feeding...
Friday Feature: What’s a Good Bull Worth in 2024?
This week's featured video was published by SunUp TV, which is Oklahoma's weekly agriculture show shared through Public Television. This video was the portion of their broadcast called, Cow-Calf Corner. In the video, Dr. Mark Johnson, Oklahoma State Extension Beef...
Results from the 2023 UF/IFAS Silage Corn, Sorghum, and Millet Variety Trials
Marcelo Wallau, Diwakar Vyas and Maria Elena Mailhos, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Are you planning on planting summer annuals for silage, hay/haylage, or grazing? Utilize the data from our corn and sorghum hybrid variety trials to aid in variety selections. Since...
On-Farm Trials Compared Controlled-Release Fertilizers to Conventional Fertilizers in Watermelons
Bob Hochmuth, Sydney Williams, UF/IFAS North Florida Research & Education Center-Suwannee Valley, and Mike Loizzo, UF/IFAS Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences These Research and Extension demonstrations were conducted during the spring of 2020 and...
Seven Elements Your Farmer’s Market Website Should Include to Attract Consumers
Source: Southern Ag Today, written by James Barnes, Mississippi State Extension Economist In today’s digital age, where 87 percent of consumers turn to Google to discover and assess local businesses (Paget, 2023), it’s evident that such an online presence as a...
2023 Panhandle Ag e-News Reader’s Choice Awards
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