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![Cotton Marketing News: USDA’s May Report Numbers Shift Market Focus a Little More Toward Supply](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/05/Shurley-Cotton-Futures-Chart-5-12-22.png)
Cotton Marketing News: USDA’s May Report Numbers Shift Market Focus a Little More Toward Supply
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics USDA’s monthly crop production and supply and demand estimates for May, released today, show revisions for the 2021 crop and are also the first such estimates for the 2022 crop. We obviously have a long...
![Friday Feature: Using RFID Tags on Cattle Operations](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/05/Cattle-Trace-RFID-Tags-featrured-image-1080x546.png)
Friday Feature: Using RFID Tags on Cattle Operations
At the recent UF/IFAS Beef Cattle Short Course in Gainesville, there was a good deal of discussion about cattle traceability in the event of a major disease outbreak. Much of the effort toward developing a traceability system in the cattle industry has focused on the...
![Reducing Your Risk of Wildfire Damage](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/Forest-Floor-Mowed-4_2022-960x675.jpg)
Reducing Your Risk of Wildfire Damage
With wet growing seasons and multiple significant storms in the past several years bringing down many trees and/or limbs, it is quite likely that unmanaged forest lands throughout the Panhandle have a high fuel load for potential forest fires. These high fuel...
![Thrips & TSWV Management: This is Your One Chance, Don’t Mess Up](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/thrips-peanutinjury_MarkAbney-1024x675.jpg)
Thrips & TSWV Management: This is Your One Chance, Don’t Mess Up
Dr. Mark Abney, UGA Peanut Entomologist Thrips populations are currently high on volunteer peanuts in Panhandle fields that are being burned down for planting; the plant injury is obvious. I will make this post as straight forward as I can. UGA research shows...
![Oat Rust & Wheat Leaves Drying – Georgia Grain News 4-28-22](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/RustInOats_RomeE.jpg)
Oat Rust & Wheat Leaves Drying – Georgia Grain News 4-28-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Oat Rust We are seeing some rust disease in oats now and it can be serious. Here are Dr. Alfredo Martinez’s comments, “Crown/leaf rust, caused by the fungal pathogen Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, is...
![2022 Watermelon Update #7 – April 25](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2021/05/PowderyMildewWatermelon_TatianaSanchez.png)
2022 Watermelon Update #7 – April 25
Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren (Levy), Tyler Pittman (Gilchrist), Tatiana Sanchez (Alachua), Luke Harlow (Union), Jay Capasso (Columbia), Dan Fenneman (Madison), Keith Wynn (Hamilton), Danielle Sprague (Jefferson), Emily...
![Early System Soybean Planting & Corn Updates – Georgia Grain News 4-22-22](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/GeorgiaSoybeanCommodityCommisionChairman_GregMims_PlantingSoybeans-e1650926471764.jpg)
Early System Soybean Planting & Corn Updates – Georgia Grain News 4-22-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Time for early system soybean planting is now in most of Georgia. You want all chance of frost over before proceeding. Southwest Ga. Grower and Georgia Soybean Commodity Commission Chairman, Greg Mims is here...
![Friday Funny Feature: Bull vs. Bicycle Racer – The Bull Won!](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/Bull-vs-Bike-featured-image.png)
Friday Funny Feature: Bull vs. Bicycle Racer – The Bull Won!
Bakersfield California has a famous off-road bicycle race through rugged terrain that includes a large privately owned cattle ranch. The Rock Cobbler Gravel Race features an 84-mile course with 8,095 feet of elevation climbing that requires 5-10 hours of cycling. ...
![Herd Synchronization Can Shorten Your Calving Season](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/Gonella-Dietrich-Cattle-photos.png)
Herd Synchronization Can Shorten Your Calving Season
Angela Gonella, UF/IFAS Cattle Reproduction Specialist, Doug Mayo, UF/IFAS Extension Jackson County, Daniella Heredia, PhD student, Camila Santos, NFREC Reproduction Lab Intern, and Oscar Alejandro Ojeda, NFREC Reproduction Lab Volunteer The Dietrich family's...
![Protect Your Well Water Quality](https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/phag/files/2022/04/Ag-well-reduced_CMackowiak-1080x675.jpg)
Protect Your Well Water Quality
The majority of rural residents in the Florida Panhandle rely on groundwater from private wells for home consumption. Groundwater is also the major source of water used in agricultural production. While public water systems are regulated federally to ensure...