February 2025 Florida Cattle Market Update
Replacement Heifer Inventory: The Past and the Present Going into 2025, one of the main questions is still, "When we will start expanding?" An additional question is can we start expanding. The current number of heifers held as beef cow replacements is 4.6 million...
Salibro: A Recently-Registered Conventional Nematicide for Select Horticulture Crops
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a key pest in Florida horticulture production, and nematicide application is an important part of an integrated pest management (IPM) approach. To that end, there is a recent addition to the limited number of nematicides available in...
2025 Panhandle Row Crop Short Course Highlights & Presentation Links
The 2025 Panhandle Row Crop Short Course was held Thursday, March 6, in Marianna, Florida. The event had a great turnout with 143 people. This annual event is a regional peanut and cotton production meeting located in the Central Panhandle, supporting growers from...
Friday Feature: Cary & Marcia Lightsey inducted into the Florida Ag Hall of Fame
This week's featured video was published by the Florida Department of Agriculture to share the story of Cary and Marcia Lightsey, cattle ranchers from Lake Wales, Florida, who were inducted into the Florida Agriculture Hall of Fame in February, by the Department of...
Why is this weed here? Weed Management in Pasture Systems
Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, in collaboration with Brent Sellers (UF/IFAS RCREU), David Russell (Auburn University) As a Forage Extension Specialist in Florida, about half of the questions I get are about weeds. “What is this weed and...
Managing Lice on Cattle
Lice infestations cause significant economic losses to the cattle industry. The USDA estimates that U.S. livestock producers lose approximately $125 million annually due to cattle lice. These tiny parasites can lead to substantial economic losses as a result of...
2024 UF/IFAS Cotton Variety Test Summary
Sudeep Sidhu, Agronomy Specialist, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy. Gabrielle Alves Comitre, Graduate Research Assistant, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy. Shivendra Kumar, Regional Specialized Agent, UF/IFAS...
What Cotton Cultivars have Resistance or Tolerance to Southern Root-knot and Reniform Nematode?
Zane J. Grabau, University of Florida, Associate Professor in Nematology; and Jefferson de Oliveira Barizon, University of Missouri, Graduate Student In Florida, and the Southeast in general, southern root-knot nematode and reniform nematode are the major...
Friday Feature: OnTrack Simple, Basic GPS Guidance
This week's featured video was published by Agricision to promote their OnTrack basic level GPS Guidance equipment. GPS guidance is not new technology, as light bars and RTK equipment options have been available for some time. What is unique about this innovative...
Chlorpyrifos Insecticide Status
Brett Bultemeier, Lauren Diepenbrock, and Ethan Carter, UF/IFAS Extension Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide used primarily to control foliage and soil-borne insect pests. The status and availability of Chlorpyrifos has had numerous, and at times,...