Florida 2021 Dicamba Stewardship Training Now Available Online
- Pratap Devkota, Weed Scientist, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center, Jay, FL - On December 20, 2020, the US EPA issued new labels for herbicide products containing low volatility formulations of dicamba. So, there are new labels for XtendiMax,...
Cotton Marketing News: Good and Eventful Week Still Leaves Questions and Uncertainty
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - Cotton prices have been highly variable (wild) over the past week or more with triple digit moves up and down for 6 consecutive days Feb 4-11. Typically, this can be a sign of market surprises (good or bad)...
2021 Virtual Beef Cattle Conference Presentation Videos
- In addition to COVID19 safety precautions, one of the real advantages of a virtual meeting is that it is very easy to record the presentations to share after the live event is over. A resource web page has been developed to share video recordings of the three...
Friday Feature: Drilling vs Broadcasting Forage Seed
This week's featured video was published by Dr. Lisa Baxter, UGA Forage Extension Specialist, on the UGA Forages YouTube Channel. In the video, Dr. Baxter talks about the economic value of using a grain drill versus a cone-type broadcast seeder. Seed costs can be...
“Plug and Play” Peanut Varieties?
- Dr. Barry Tillman, UF/IFAS Peanut Breeder, North Florida Research and Education Center, Marianna In this technological age, we've all grown accustomed to the ability to simply plug in a new device and see it work. Mostly gone are the old days, when we had to...
Farming System Alternatives – Focusing on the Natural
There are many farming systems utilized world-wide, with conventional agriculture being the most prevalent. However, alternative systems, like organic and all-natural farming, are becoming more popular than ever before. - Organic Farming With any farming system, there...
Friday Feature: Soil Health – Theory of Change
This week's featured video was published by the Soil Health Institute to share the huge need to focus on improving the health and productivity of agricultural soils. With an ever growing world population, and shrinking acreage of productive farmland, the only way to...
Poisonous Plants Suspected Cause of Cattle Deaths in the Panhandle
Ann Blount, UF/IFAS Forage Extension Specialist, João Bittar, UF/CVM Extension Beef Veterinarian, Adam Stern-UF/CVM Veterinary Forensic Pathologist, and Evie Blount, UF/IFAS Extension Gadsden County 4-H Agent - Livestock producers beware! Especially during the winter...
Progress of Carinata Research in the Panhandle
- Ramdeo Seepaul, Ian Small, Sheeja George, David Wright, North Florida Research and Education Center, and Michael Mulvaney, West Florida Research and Education Center Carinata is grown primarily as a sustainable source of non-edible oils, which can be refined into...
Making Wheat and Peanuts Less Allergenic
Source: Adityarup "Rup" Chakravorty, Crop Science Society of America - Science News The United States Department of Agriculture identifies a group of “big eight” foods that causes 90% of food allergies. Among these foods are wheat and peanuts. Sachin Rustgi, a...