Row Crop Short Course – March 5 in Chipley

Row Crop Short Course – March 5 in Chipley

Peanut and cotton growers and allied industry members make plans to attend the 2026 Row Crop Short Course. This year’s addition of the Short Course will be hosted by UF/IFAS Extension, Washington County on Thursday, March 5, 2026. The event, at the Washington...
Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New

Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New

Kalli, Susmitha, Yangxuan Liu, University of Georgia, Hunter D. Biram, University of Arkansas, and Fayu Chong, Virginia Tech. “Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New Under the OBBB Act.” Southern Ag Today – October 27, 2025. The One Big Beautiful...
2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

2025 End-of-Season Florida Peanut Disease Notes

Nicholas Dufault, Barry Tillman, and Marco Goyzueta, UF/IFAS Extension Peanut Team With the 2025 peanut season concluding, it’s a good time to review this year’s plant disease issues and prepare for the next. Last year, the focus was on soilborne diseases like white...
Peanut Maturity Update – 9/25/25 Edition

Peanut Maturity Update – 9/25/25 Edition

It is seriously dry in the Central Panhandle. The graphics above show that it has essentially not rained a drop in the past month (or longer in many locations) and consequently the area is now in D2 Severe Drought according to the Drought Monitor. These incredibly...
Harvest Time – Recapping the 2024 Cropping Season

Harvest Time – Recapping the 2024 Cropping Season

Another year has almost come and gone for Central Panhandle (Jackson, Calhoun, Washington, and Holmes County) farmers.  Peanuts and cotton planted back in April and May have reached maturity and have mostly been harvested.  So, with the end of the season upon us,...