Friday Feature: Sheep Drive Through the Streets of Madrid
Most Floridians dread the coming of summer vacation due to all of the added traffic on local roads as millions of tourists travel through Florida to beaches and other tourist attractions. In Madrid, Spain, sheep and goats pour through city streets on their way to...
Enlist Crop Technology (2,4-D-Tolerant Crops) and Requirements for Herbicide Application
Pratap Devkota, Weed Scientist, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center Enlist crop technology (2,4-D-tolerant) allows for the application of 2,4-D choline herbicide products on Enlist Cotton, Enlist Corn, and Enlist E3 Soybean. The newer 2,4-D choline...
Alternative Crops – Florida Olive Production
The weather in Florida doesn't resemble that of the Mediterranean. Our hot and humid climate is unpredictable. One day we might be dry and in the 70s. The next we might be hot and humid with afternoon showers. Of all things I could think of growing, olives...
New UF/IFAS Field and Forage Crop Entomologist at NFREC Quincy
Introduction My name is Dr. Isaac Esquivel, and I wanted to introduce myself to y’all as the new field and forage crop entomologist at the NFREC in Quincy. I earned my B.S. degree in Entomology at the University of California Riverside, where I studied tomato psyllids...
April 2022 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook
Rainfall With hot weather just around the corner, it is time to look back at the moisture and temperatures from the last month of Spring. I know, technically May is part of Spring but not in Florida. March brought much needed moisture to the Panhandle, after a dry...
2022 Watermelon Update #9 – May 9
Bob Hochmuth with input from Suwannee Valley Extension Agents: Mark Warren (Levy), Tyler Pittman (Gilchrist), Tatiana Sanchez (Alachua), Luke Harlow (Union), Jay Capasso (Columbia), Dan Fenneman (Madison), Keith Wynn (Hamilton), Danielle Sprague (Jefferson), Emily...
Soybean & Corn Updates- Georgia Grain News 5-6-22
Rome Ethredge – UGA Interim Grains and Soybean Agronomist Soybean Early System Soybeans are looking good. 16 days old and already forming nitrogen fixing nodules. We can tell the beneficial nodules from nematodes because they are stuck to the side of the root whereas...
Cotton Marketing News: USDA’s May Report Numbers Shift Market Focus a Little More Toward Supply
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics USDA’s monthly crop production and supply and demand estimates for May, released today, show revisions for the 2021 crop and are also the first such estimates for the 2022 crop. We obviously have a long...
Friday Feature: Using RFID Tags on Cattle Operations
At the recent UF/IFAS Beef Cattle Short Course in Gainesville, there was a good deal of discussion about cattle traceability in the event of a major disease outbreak. Much of the effort toward developing a traceability system in the cattle industry has focused on the...
Reducing Your Risk of Wildfire Damage
With wet growing seasons and multiple significant storms in the past several years bringing down many trees and/or limbs, it is quite likely that unmanaged forest lands throughout the Panhandle have a high fuel load for potential forest fires. These high fuel...