Crop Fertilizer Tune-Up to Up Your Game in 2022
Mark Warren, UF/IFAS Extension Levy County Agriculture Agent Farmers across North Florida are expressing concern about high and rising fertilizer costs as they look to the upcoming season. While there isn’t much that we can offer in terms of supply chain issues and...
Who Owns and Controls Farming Data?
Ziwen Yu, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department The future of agriculture depends on the adoption of new technologies that gather, transfer, manage, and analyze data to make better decisions on all aspects in agriculture. These...
November 2021 Weather Summary and 2022 Outlook
Rainfall November was not a typical month across the Panhandle. After months of above average rainfall in 2021, La Niña kicked in with a vengeance. The map above to the left shows the actual estimated rainfall for November. The entire Panhandle received less than...
Cotton Marketing News: Cotton Fundamentals Provide Reason for New Hope
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Uncertainty and panic over the OMICRON variant caused the cotton market, along with many other commodities, to drop significantly in price over the past 2 weeks. Cotton began this week to stabilize and try...
Friday Feature: Getting the Most from Your Hay
With so much rain this growing season, even producing average quality hay this year was a real challenge. Not only was the weather a challenge, but the cost of fertilizer was much higher too. So, you sure don't want to waste any of the precious hay you grew or...
Peanut Injury Response to Dicamba plus Glyphosate Drift
Pratap Devkota, Weed Scientist, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center, Jay, FL In the Florida Panhandle, peanut is the major crop that is grown in close proximity to cotton and soybeans. As such, there is potential for peanut plants to be exposed to...
Jerusalem Artichoke (Sunchoke) – A Crop for the Back Forty
Thanksgiving is next week, Christmas is next month, and spring is just around the corner. A mostly forgotten crop that can be planted in early spring is the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.), also known as a sunchoke and not to be confused with a globe...
How Much is that Cheaper “Cow Hay” Really Costing You?
Robbie Jones, UF/IFAS Extension Gadsden County, and Marcello Wallau, UF/IFAS Extension Forage Specialist Late fall is the time of year when farmers and ranchers begin to rely on hay as the main source of forage, either for the duration of winter, or at least as...
Friday Feature: John Deere’s See and Spray System
The Sunbelt Ag Expo featured a wide range of new equipment innovations on display in one location. If you went to the Expo, you may have seen the massive 120' self-propelled sprayer on display at the John Deere exhibit. This machine came equipped with the See and...
Farming More Efficiently with Grid Soil Testing and Precision Nutrient Application
De Broughton, Regional Specialized Row Crop Agent, Tyler Pittman, Gilchrist County Extension Agriculture Agent, Kelsey Steller, NFREC Extension Assistant, and Dalton Tiner, NFREC Extension Assistant - Why soil test? Farmers need to soil-test annually to determine...