Managing Cattle Herd Profitability with Rising Input Costs
Doug Mayo, UF/IFAS Jackson County Extension Director & Chris Prevatt, UF/IFAS Livestock & Forage Economist 2020 was a challenging year in all sorts of ways. For cattle producers, there were market disruptions, meat processor shutdowns, significant...
5/20/21 Peanut Update & aGDD Tracker
Mark Mauldin, Ag & Natural Resources Agent Washington County, Dr. Barry Tillman Peanut Breeder UF/IFAS NFREC, and Camila Ichazo Peanut planting is well underway across the entire peanut producing region of Florida. Some of the earliest planted peanuts have been in...
May 17 Watermelon Crop Update
UF/IFAS Extension Suwannee Valley Weekly Watermelon Crop Update. These updates are summarized by Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren, Tyler Pittman, Tatiana Sanchez, Luke Harlow, Jay Capasso, Sylvia Wills, Dan Fenneman, Keith...
Farming & UF/IFAS Runs in the Blount Family
Kirsten Romaguera, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communications Ann Blount calls herself a “weekend farmer.” The Blount family’s 300-acre farm in Gadsden County can trace its roots back to 1908, evolving from shade tobacco to sweet potato fields, and...
Cotton Marketing News – Cotton’s Bad Week Hopefully Just a Hiccup
- New crop December futures had a miserable week. Texas got rain and that’s good, but the market took a toll on the grower because of it. December futures lost 567 points for the week—closing at 81.22 cents—the lowest in a month. This wipes out about half of the...
Friday Feature: T-Post Spring Wire Fence Clips
This week's featured video was produced by LockJawz to introduce their innovative new spring wire clip for attaching traditional fencing to t-posts. This company manufactures a number of unique fencing products, but their spring wire clips can be used to attach...
Powerful Reproductive Technologies are Available to Boost the Performance of Your Cattle Herd
Angela M. Gonella Diaza, DVM, Ph.D. (NFREC, IFAS, UF); Mario Binelli, Ph.D. (Animal Sciences, IFAS, UF); João H. J. Bittar, DVM, Ph.D. (Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, UF); Alejandro Ojeda, DVM, Ph.D. (University of São Paulo, Brazil)...
Technical and Financial Assistance Available for Producers to Implement Farm BMPs
Producers have implemented Best Management Practices (BMPs) that maintain or improve water quality, quantity and soil conditions on their farms for many years. Multiple agencies in our region recognize this and offer financial assistance to reduce the cost to...
3 Reasons to Weigh Your Mature Cow Herd
Recently I had a conversation with a vegetable farmer from the upper mid-west. Somehow we got on the topic of scales and I explained to him that many cattle producers don’t have a scale. The farmer looked at me in pure shock! “How do you know how much to feed your...
Effective Management of Warm-Season Pastures During the Spring Transition
Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Extension Forage Specialist, and Chris Prevatt, UF/IFAS Livestock & Forage Economist As days grow longer and warmer, warm-season perennial pastures break dormancy and begin another period of growth. Fields are greening and the...