Friday Feature: The Rat Buster
This week's featured video is a single selection from the large video collection of Jeff Pybus, "The Rat Buster." Pybus has become a YouTube sensation with millions of video views and 110k subscribers who love to watch him shoot rats. Pybus uses a thermal scope on a...
Cool-Season Forages – A Pasture Perspective for 2022
Ann Blount, Marcelo Wallau, Esteban Rios, Joe Vendramini, Jose Dubeux, Ali Babar, Kevin Kenworthy and Ken Quesenberry, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Time is fast approaching to plant our cool-season forages for Florida. Seed prices have been stable this season, however...
Florida Cattlemen’s Leadership Academy Kicks Off Class IX
The Florida Cattlemen’s Leadership Academy (FCLA) recently kicked off its 9th-year program in Kissimmee, Florida, at the Florida Cattlemen’s Association headquarters. FCLA is an annual program that identifies, develops, and encourages the next generation of leaders of...
August 2022 Weather Summary and Harvest Season Outlook
Rainfall August 2022 was another hot and steamy month for the Panhandle that brought variable rainfall to the region. The western counties received over 9.5" (purple, mauve, & magenta), as seen in the map above to the left. Areas in blue received 8-9.5" in...
UF Alum Dean Pringle Selected as North Florida Research and Education Center Director
Kirsten Romaguera, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communication Services Dean Pringle joins the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) as director of the North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC). He starts...
Friday Feature: What Will it Take to Feed the World in the Future?
This week's featured video was published by a PBS Show called Reconnecting Roots that features host Gabe McCauley. McAuley and his team produced an episode of Reconnecting Roots focused on agriculture. In the video I chose to share this week, McAuley asked a large...
UF/IFAS Testing Nematode-Resistant Cotton and Peanut Cultivars
Use of resistant cultivars is one of the main strategies available for managing plant-parasitic nematodes. In cotton and peanut, there have been new releases of resistant cultivars in recent years. Preliminary results and observations from ongoing UF/IFAS research to...
Final Peanut Management Decisions and Harvest
Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop IPM Agent and Mark Mauldin, Washington County Agriculture Agent September is here, and that means peanut harvest is just around the corner. Equipment is starting to move down the roadways, maturity samples are being...
Friday Feature: Growing Plants in Soil from the Moon
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) have successfully grown plants in lunar soil extracted from three NASA missions to the Moon. Rob Feral and Anna Lisa Paul, UF/IFAS Horticulture Department, were the first scientist to show that plants can be grown in...
When Grasses Collide – Centipede vs. Bahiagrass in Your Pasture
Managing a pasture comes with a host of potential problems: nutrient deficiencies, insect pests, weeds, and overgrazing can all cause serious issues when you’re just trying to grow some forage. At times, several minor problems can all add up to one major one....