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...
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...