Friday Feature: How Peanut Butter is Made
The calendar has turned to October, so it is time for the annual UF/IFAS Peanut Butter Challenge. Extension Offices all across Florida will be accepting donations of peanut butter to supply local food banks in each county. Peanut farming is very common in the...
End of Season Peanut Disease Notes
Nicholas Dufault, UF/IFAS State Extension Plant Pathologist, Ethan Carter, UF/IFAS Regional Specialized Agent, Ian Small, UF/IFAS Plant Pathologist, Santosh Sanjel, UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Ph. D. Student and Zach Eldred, UF/IFAS Doctor of Plant Medicine Student ...
Pine Tip Moths Damaging Young Trees in Panhandle Pine Plantations
In October 2018, Hurricane Michael rolled through the Central Panhandle, destroying millions of acres of commercial pine forests. In the years since, a remarkable amount of work has been done to clean up and replant most of these destroyed acres. Many of these...
Enhancing Conservation Practices On-Farm through the NRCS Conservation Stewardship Program
The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers producers technical and financial assistance to help them implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) on their operations. NRCS staff work with farmers, ranchers, and forest land managers to develop...
Cotton Marketing News – Market Back to Double Digits
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics The market continues to find ways to surprise and shock and sometimes make us happy and sometimes disappoint. If it can, the market has a way of proving all analysts wrong at some point. After trading...
Friday Feature: Farmer Mental Health
This week's featured video was produced by the University of Texas at Tyler's South West Ag Center to address a serious issue, the mental health of farmers. In this video, Grant Heinrich, a Lubbock farmer and crop duster, shares his experience with mental health and...
Protecting Your Poultry Flock From Bird Flu
Samantha Wisely & Bridget Baker, UF/IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Bird flu or avian influenza is a virus that circulates among wild birds around the world. Often when the virus comes into contact with domestic birds, like...
Monitoring Peanut Maturity with the aGDD Tracker – 9/23/22 Edition
As we move through the growing season and watch our fictional fields mature on the Tracker some interesting trends begin to emerge. It has been fairly dry for the past two weeks throughout most of Florida’ peanut producing region, only the Southern end of the...
Horse Owners Help Protect Water Quality With New Tool
- Tory Moore, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communications Managing manure can be a challenge for horse owners. One horse can produce an average of 50 pounds of waste per day and with an estimated 385,000 horses in Florida, that waste piles up. A new UF/IFAS...
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...