Planning to Use Aldicarb this Season? Get Your Permit from FDACS
- Aldicarb products are restricted use pesticides used primarily to control mites, nematodes and insect pests in a limited number of crops. These products are closely regulated because of their toxicity. Visit this site to read the AgLogic's Aldicarb's label....
Cover Crops and Soil Moisture Field Day at the Walker’s Farm – April 15
- Please join us in Escambia County for the 2021 Cover Crops and Soil Moisture Field Day at Sam and Scott Walker's farm on April 15th at 9 AM. For anyone passing by their farm on the corner of Highway 99 and Melvin Road (just one mile south of Oak Grove Baptist...
Friday Feature: FarmWise Vegetable AI Weed Control
This week's featured video was published by FarmWise to promote their autonomous machines that cruise organic vegetable fields in California and Arizona to remove weeds soon after emergence. The machines utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to navigate farm fields,...
Is it Coping or a Vice? Understanding Stereotypic Behaviors in Horses
Carissa Wickens, University of Florida, and Camie Heleski, University of Kentucky - Introduction Stereotypic behaviors are defined as repetitive, relatively unvarying patterns of behavior with no obvious goal or function. A horse that displays stereotypic behavior...
Fire Management in a Silvopasture System
- In a silvopasture setting, you must consider both grass and tree management when doing a prescribed burn or other practices. We know that controlled, or prescribed burning can be beneficial to both plant communities. Depending on species of pine, initial burning of...
Hemp Diseases in North Florida
Fanny Iriarte, Josh Freeman, Rui Yan, and Matthews Paret, UF/IFAS North Flroida Research and Education Center - The following are a collection of hemp diseases and the associated symptoms for diagnosis, as well as management tips to reduce yield loss or plant death. -...
2021 Thrips Management in Cotton Update
Dr. Scott Graham, Auburn Crop Entomologist As the 2021 cotton production season approaches, it is time to start preparing for thrips management. Thrips are the dominate insect pest of seedling cotton in Alabama. Each year, thrips infest 100 percent of the acres...
Hurricane Michael Timber and Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Application Deadlines Extended through April 30
- On August 21, 2020, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Forest Service announced that registration for the Florida Timber Recovery Block Grant Program and the Florida Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Program was available to agricultural producers...
Cotton Marketing News: Have Prices Leveled Out?
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - There’s been a different tone to the market the past couple of weeks. Have we seen the pre-plant peak? Has the trajectory changed? New crop December futures peaked at 87.66 cents, back on February 24, and...
Friday Feature: Cranberry Farming Start to Finish
Cranberries are not a crop that is grown in the Florida Panhandle, but is a very unique crop grown in the Northern US. This week's video was published by Luke Parameter on behalf of Jacob Searls Cranberry Company, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, who have been farming...