Florida Cattle Market Update: May 2024 – Hay Stocks & Pasture Conditions
USDA releases the Crop Production report each month, and hay stocks (hay on farm) are included in the May and December reports. The May 2024 Crop Production report shows that hay stocks in the United States are up 46% year-over-year. However, hay stocks in May of 2023...
Understand the Implications of a Price Slide When Buying and Selling Cattle
Kenny Burdine, Extension Professor of Livestock Economics - Southern Ag Today - May 29, 2024 Everyone who buys or sells feeder cattle regularly understands that in most markets, the price per pound decreases as cattle get heavier. This can create a challenge for...
Friday Feature: How to Read Weather Radar
This week's featured video was published by Chris Chase, who is a storm chaser, to explain how meteorologists utilize radar for monitoring the movement and severity of storms. If you are a farmer or outdoor enthusiast of any type, you have likely utilized a radar app...
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...