Chronic Wasting Disease Gets Closer to Florida
Below is a bulletin sent out by Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission on 01/10/2022 Chronic wasting disease or CWD was recently detected in a hunter-harvested deer in northwestern Alabama, making it the 28th state where CWD has been documented. It’s the...
Friday Feature: John Deere 8R Autonomous (self-driving) Tractor
This week's feature video was produced by John Deere to introduce their new 8R Fully Autonomous Tractor at the Consumer Electronic Show. John Deere revealed that their autonomous tractor is ready for large-scale production in 2022. Imagine a tractor that drives...
History of Conservation Tillage and Cover Crop Use in Florida
Growing up on a farm in Middle Tennessee allowed me to see firsthand why terraces, conservation tillage and cover crops were so important for preventing erosion. Most farms had burley tobacco bases of 0.5 to 2 acres and pasture (usually fescue and clover). Corn was...
What is Soil Health and How is it Measured?
Soil health broadly refers to the quality of a soil in terms of chemical, physical, and biological characteristics. It includes conventional soil fertility considerations and adds to it a more holistic view of the soil by considering more dimensions of a soil...
2022 Florida Bull Test Sale – Performance Data Analysis
Sorting through all of the data to select bulls of interest to from in a bull sale catalog can be a daunting task with so much information provided. The VRDEC (Visual Representation of Data for Evaluation and Comparison) Bull Selection Tool tables below show the sale...
2021 Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2022 Outlook
Rainfall December was another typical La Niña winter month that was warmer and dryer than normal for much of the Panhandle. The map to the left above shows rainfall estimates ranged from 0.5" (red) to 6" (dark green),with most of the region ranging from 2-4". The...
Friday Feature: 6666 Ranch
If you have been watching the fourth season of the TV Show Yellowstone, you were introduced to the famous 142k acre 6666 Ranch, in West Texas. The reason this ranch was featured was because it was purchased last year by Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone. ...
Emerging Vegetable Alternatives for the Panhandle
Are you a farmer looking to try something new? Or maybe you just acquired some land and want to put it to good use to earn a profit. There are so many options that can work in the Panhandle; your specific situation will determine which options are realistic for...
Is Your Horse Enterprise a Business or a Hobby?
Dr. Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS Extension Horse Specialist Most would agree that involvement with horses and the horse industry requires significant investment. If the intent of a horse enterprise is to generate a net gain in revenue, then it may be recognized...
Citrus Greening (HLB) Update for North Florida and Georgia
Iriarte, F.B1, Lovestrand E.L.2, McConnell J.3, Demorest N.4, Tancig M.5, Martini X.1, Andersen P.1, and Paret M1. University of Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy, FL1, and UF/IFAS Franklin2, Bay3, Columbia4 and Leon5 County Extension. Back in 2016, Citrus...