Friday Feature: Cow Cuddling Agritourism
This week's featured video was published by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) to share a story on a crazy trend that started in the Netherlands called "Cow Cuddling" or "Cow Hugging" therapy. I have heard of people paying to swim with dolphins, or horse trail...
Worms in Young Peanuts – Are they Tobacco Budworms, Corn Earworms, or Velvetbean Caterpillars? ID is Essential for Control
By: Ethan Carter, UF/IFAS Regional Row Crop IPM Agent and Dr. Mark Abney, UGA Peanut Entomologist Caterpillar sightings in young peanut fields have skyrocketed over the past week, with calls pouring into local extension offices. Some fields as young as 25 days after...
What are the White Spots on my Blueberries? Exobasidium Fruit Spot
- Have you noticed spots on your blueberry plants and fruit lately? There is an emerging fungal disease on blueberries in the Southeastern US. Exobasidium leaf and fruit spot is a fungal disease is caused by Exobasidium maculosum, a new species of fungus first...
Summer Care for Horses
Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS State Extension Horse Specialist Summertime brings many positives for horse owners: longer days, shorter hair coats, and lower feed bills, utilizing pasture instead of hay. Some of the challenges that arrive with hot/humid days of summer...
Can Cow/Calf Operations Increase Revenue to Help Offset Rising Input Costs?
- I have a habit, good or bad, of saving emails. There are a ridiculous number of folders in my inbox where I file away emails on the off chance that I might need the information they contain at some later date. Recently my electronic hording actually paid off. After...
2021 Florida Peanut Crop Starting Strong
David Wright, UF/IFAS Agronomy Extension Specialist Florida peanut growers are just at the end of planting for the 2021 growing season. In general, this year's planting has gone well, with few issues. Peanuts can be grown successfully in a wide variety of soil types....
June 14 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...
Cotton Marketing News: Cotton Prices Post a “Triple Top”
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics - If you feel like you are “behind” in your pricing/price protection and have been waiting for opportunity to get caught up, here you go. We mentioned a couple of weeks ago that prices (December futures) were...
Friday Double Feature: Peterson Brothers’ Some Cows and Cows Dance Videos
This week's featured videos were produced by the Peterson Brothers from Kansas that have become famous for their funny parody videos that take a popular song and change the words to match something from farm life. The Peterson Farm Brothers are made up of Greg (30),...
Peanut Mid-Season Weed Control Options and Considerations
Pratap Devkota, Weed Scientist, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center, Jay, FL The 2021 peanut planting season is winding down. Most fields in the Florida Panhandle have been planted by now. Hopefully, they also received a good residual preemergence...