Managing Heat Stress in Cow-Calf Operations
Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Breeding Specialist Heat stress is caused by a combination of environmental factors including temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, air movement and precipitation. During the summer we...
Friday Feature: A Year in the Life of a High-Tech Iowa Corn & Soybean Farmer
This week's featured video, published by FieldView (Digital Farming Software Platform), is a documentary that follows an Iowa corn & soybean farmer through one growing season. Check out the 24-minute video that shares the highlights of a single crop year from...
Early Leaf Spot Found on Peanuts in the Florida Panhandle
Barry Tillman, UF/IFAS Peanut Breeder, Nick Dufault, UF/IFAS Extension Crop Pathologist., Ian Small, UF/IFAS Crop Pathologist, Ethan Carter, Regional Crop IPM Agent, and Mark Mauldin, UF/IFAS Extension Washington County. This week, (July 24 and July 27) Early Leaf...
Hoof Care for Florida Horses
In Florida, the hot and humid climate can make it challenging to keep horse’s hooves healthy. Microorganisms thrive in warm and wet environments and can cause infections. Here are some basic hoof care tips for Florida horses: Regular Trimming – schedule regular...
July 2023 Cattle Inventory Report – No Herd Rebuilding in Sight
Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist The USDA July Cattle report showed that the U.S. beef cow herd continued to decline through the first half of the year. The July 1 beef cow inventory was 29.4 million head, down 2.6...
Mathews Paret Promoted to University of Florida Plant Pathology Department Chair
Samantha Murray, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communications Service Mathews Paret, Vegetable Pathologist, North Florida Research and Education Center-Quincy, and professor in the UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department, will step into the role of department chair...
Cotton Marketing News: Prices Get a Bounce, Now What?
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Prices (December 23 futures) have made a nice run and currently stand just over 85 cents. This is the highest level since early March. Price has improved for three consecutive weeks—increasing 3.26 cents last...
Friday Feature: The History of Bobcat Loaders
This week's featured video was published by Prairie Public Television to share the history of the Bobcat Loader. Two ingenious brothers, Cyril and Louis Keller, grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. Their father usually repaired broken machinery parts rather than...
Cotton Nitrogen Fertilization Rate Study 2023 Mid-Season Update
Madelyn Grant, Escambia County Extension, Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop IPM Agent, and Hardeep Singh, UF Cropping Systems Specialist University of Florida researchers are now a year and a half into the nitrogen rate study to evaluate Florida’s nitrogen...
Friday Feature: Visualizing Development of the Bovine Embryo
This week's featured video was published by the University of Florida's Animal Science Department to share time-lapse video of early development of a bovine embryo. Researchers at the University of Florida are studying embryo development to learn ways to reduce...