Cotton Marketing News: More on Old Crop and New Crop Situation and Outlook
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics 2022 (Old crop), March futures are currently in the neighborhood of 82¢/lb. and continue in a pretty much sideways pattern mostly between 80 and 86¢. The more optimistic upside appears to be at 90¢. I’d put the...
Friday Feature: Farm Bureau’s 2023 Farm Dog of the Year
American Farm Bureau held their national conference recently in Puerto Rico. One of the recognitions shared at the event was the 2023 Farm Dog of the year. This year a Kansas farm dog named Tough was selected for this honor. Watch the video to hear Tough's story....
Utilizing Winter Forage Blends for Insurance Against Climate Chaos
Cheryl Mackowiak, Soil Scientist, UF/IFAS North Florid Research and Education Center What do you get when you follow a mild la Niña fall with a subfreezing, multi-day cold snap in Florida? You get Climate Chaos with a lot of winter forage damage and unhappy livestock....
Impacts of the Christmas Freeze on Forages – What Happened and What to Do Now
By: Dr. Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Extension Forage Specialist; Mark Mauldin, UF/IFAS Extension Washington County; Dr. Ali Babar, Associate Professor UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Cool-season annual forages are widely used in North Florida grazing systems. Florida’s...
2022 Weather Summary and 1st Quarter Outlook
Rainfall 2022 was a unique weather year in the Panhandle. After several wetter than normal years, the end of 2022 got significantly drier than it has been in recent years. The map above shows the comparison of actual rainfall estimates with historic average in...
Apply Early for an Aldicarb Application Permit if Treating Fields with AgLogic 15GG
Pesticide application is one of the primary ways to treat plant-parasitic nematodes and insects, and AgLogic 15GG is one of the available options for use in cotton and peanut. Aldicarb is the active ingredient in AgLogic 15GG and is the same active ingredient...
Friday Feature: Barn2Door Online Farm Direct Sales
One thing that has changed dramatically in our country since 2020 is online sales of consumer products. This includes direct sales from farms of all types. The challenge is that much of the technology needed to make online sales work smoothly requires a significant...
2023 Florida Bull Test Sale – Performance Data Analysis
Sorting through all of the data to select bulls of interest from a bull sale catalog can be a daunting task, given the vast quantity of information provided. The VRDEC (Visual Representation of Data for Evaluation and Comparison) Bull Selection Tool tables below show...
Are You Familiar with Bovine Leukosis Virus in Cattle?
João H.J. Bittar, DVM, Ph.D., Ameer A. Megahed, DVM, Ph.D., Ahmadreza Mirzaei, DVM, PhD., Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida What is BLV? Bovine Leukosis is a lifelong infection caused by the...
Winter Beekeeping Tips to Keep Your Colonies Primed
With the new year upon us, this is a good time to redirect your attention to closer management of bee colonies. Tupelo season is not far away, and you’ll certainly want your bees healthy for the peak season. Feeding colonies as well as pest and disease management...