2025 Weather Summary and 2026 1st Quarter Outlook
Rainfall 2025 was a challenging year for farming and ranching. The year started with the big snow and very cold temperatures that prevented satsumas from making fruit. Crop farmers planted into dry soils with long dry spells throughout the growing season and ended...
2025 Average Farmland Rental Rates, Lease Agreements, and Worker Wages Summary
Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and workers. As we prepare for 2026, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about farmland lease agreements....
Surprise! January WASDE Report Moves Corn and Soybeans Lower – Cotton Flat
Adam Rabinowitz, Alabama Extension Crop Economist - Southern Ag Today -January 14, 2026 On Monday, January 12, 2026, the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report was released with some unexpected projections. A record corn crop is even...
Get your Pesticide Applicator CEUs – February 10 & 12
Get your pesticide applicator CEUs at the 2026 Central Panhandle Series! This series will be held in Blountstown, Florida, on February 10th and February 12th, 2026, and will offer morning and afternoon sessions. Each session will focus on a different license category...
Small Farm Start Up School is Coming to the Panhandle – April 14
Small Farm Start-Up-School is coming to the Panhandle! Some partial scholarships available.
Friday Feature: 1954 How to Dial Your Phone
This week's featured video is not specifically related to agriculture, but it does show how far technology has come in the last 75 years. In 1954, Southern Bell created a movie short to provide instructions for people on how to dial a call directly using a rotary...
2026 Florida Bull Test Sale – Performance Data Evaluation Simplified
Sorting through all of the data in a cattle sale catalog can be a daunting task. The VRDEC (Visual Representation of Data for Evaluation and Comparison) Bull Selection Tool tables below are intended to make the task a little easier. The tables feature the sale...
Variety Choice Matters – Results from the 2025 Spring Corn Silage Variety Trial
Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, Department of Agronomy, Maria Elena Mailhos, Variety Trial Coordinator, Department of Agronomy, and Diwakar Vyas, UF/IDFAS Department of Animal Science Many producers are gearing up to plant corn silage quite soon....
Winter Management Considerations for Horses
Amanda Masholie, Sustainable Ag & Small Farms Agent, UF/IFAS Extension Walton County Many horse farms and horse owners are immersed in their management strategies for cooler winter weather. Horse owners must plan for hay reserves and determine if they will...
Don’t Ignore Cow Size When Comparing Calf Weaning Weights
Kenny Burdine, Southern Ag Today - December 29, 2025 While I have heard discussions around the topic, I have never been one to believe that an “optimal” cow size exists. Every farm is unique and operates in a different production and market environment. Whenever this...