2025 Central Panhandle Pesticide Training Series – February 18-20
The 2025 Central Panhandle Series will be held in Bonifay, Florida, from February 18 to 20, 2025. This series will offer morning and afternoon sessions. Each session will focus on a different license category and offer 3 CEUs. Preregistration can be submitted using...
Featured Video: President Carter Selling Boiled Peanuts
Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, and was raised just outside of Plains, Georgia on a peanut farm. Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024. Carter served as the 39th President from 1977-1981. To pay tribute to Jimmy Carter's life, the Georgia Peanut...
Florida Soils are an Indispensable Natural Resource
Dr. Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS Soil Scientist, North Florida Research and Education Center - Quincy Soil is more than dirt. A healthy soil supports a healthy ecosystem and society. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt aptly stated, “A nation that destroys its soil, destroys...
Managing Pine Stands for Straw Production
Landowners and managers are always looking for ways to maximize the production value of their planted pine stands. Marketing pine straw is an alternative management practice, which has the potential to do just that. Pine straw is great for weed suppression in...
Crops and Cattle: Could this be the Path to Sustainable Agriculture for the Southeast?
By: Olivia Maule, Ashley Kanobroski, and Marcelo Wallau The integration of crops and livestock was how agriculture evolved: crops providing grain and fodder, animals providing nutrient cycling and meat. With the advent of modern agriculture and greater access to...
2025 Florida Bull Test Sale EPD Cheat Sheets
Sorting through all of the data in a 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 lots...
2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook
Rainfall 2024 will be remembered by most farmers and ranchers as a dry growing season, but rainfall totals for the whole year were highly variable. The map above to the left shows NOAA's estimate of annual rainfall in 2024 across Florida. Multiple hurricanes were...
2024 Panhandle Ag e-News Reader’s Choice Awards
The Panhandle Ag Extension Team would like to thank our email subscribers and social media followers for your interest and support of Panhandle Ag e-News in 2024. Keep sharing those emails, posts, and tweets to help us spread the word, so more farmers and ranchers...
2025 Florida Bull Test Sale – January 18
The 25th Annual Florida Bull Test Sale, will be held at the North Florida Research and Education Center's Beef Research Unit, on Saturday, January 18, 2025. The objective of this test is to evaluate the performance potential and breeding soundness of consigned...
Private Pesticide Applicator/Core Exam Prep – January 29
UF/IFAS Extension, Calhoun County will host a Private Applicator & Core Pesticide Applicator Exam Review class on Wednesday, January 29th at the Calhoun County Extension Office, 20816 Central Ave E, Blountstown, FL 32424. If you need a restricted use pesticide...