Friday Feature: Louisiana Crawfish Farming
In this week's featured video, Daniel Geneen documents a working tour of a Louisiana Crawfish and Rice Farming operation for the Eater YouTube Channel. This gives the whole concept of double cropping a whole new meaning. Rice farmers like Mike Frugé of Cajun Crawfish...
Cool-Season Fly Pests of Horses
Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS State Extension Horse Specialist Days are getting shorter, and nights are getting colder. Though the mosquito burden is subsiding, there are still fly pests of horses that seem to fair very well in the cooler months of the year in Florida. -...
New UF/IFAS Forage Team Website
Ashley Kuhn, Communications Coordinator, and Marcelo Wallau, Forage Extension Specialist, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Have you seen our new and improved UF Forage Team website? We now have a hub for quick and easy access to all things related to forages for...
Winter Pond Management
Typically, when we think of ponds we think of Summertime, a hot sunny day, and a fishing pole. However, as seasons change so should our management mindset to ensure a healthy pond throughout the year. Like our trees that loose their leaves, ponds are also influenced...
2022 Average Farmland Rent and Farm-Worker Wages
Discussions about money can be awkward in almost every type of relationship, but even more so between landowners and farmers, or employers and employees. As we close out 2022, many farmers and landowners have begun discussions about renewing leases and...
Cotton Marketing News: Outlook Update for Old Crop and New Crop Cotton
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics We’ve learned and experienced the evidence of how crop markets, especially cotton it seems, can be impacted by “secondary” factors on the demand side. Factors that one may think have little or nothing to do with...
Friday Feature: Low-Stress Cattle Handling in Cowpens
This week's featured video was produced by Oklahoma State for their SUNUP TV program. Low-stress cattle handling is one of the cornerstone concepts of Beef Quality Assurance (BQA). Handling cattle calmly in small groups reduces bruising and injury of both cattle and...
Nitrogen Calibration Strip – A Tool to Better Manage Mid-Season Nitrogen Fertilization for Cotton Production in Florida
Eeusha Nafi, Sudeep Sidhu, Ted Stansly, Ian Small, Sheeja George, David Wright, Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center Libbie Johnson and Ethan Carter discussed cotton nitrogen (N) rate research in the article: May Update on the Cotton...
This Holiday Season Enjoy a Fresh Florida Grown Christmas Tree
This Holiday season stay real and go local with a fresh locally grown tree. It may come as a surprise to many, but Florida has thriving local Christmas tree farms around the state. Just because Florida has a warm climate in the deep south does not mean...
November Weather Summary & Winter Climate Outlook
Rainfall November was yet another dry month for much of the Panhandle. Tropical Storm Nicole and a few cold fronts brought some drought relief to Northwest Florida, but not enough to end the current drought. In the map above to the left you can see that only a small...