Don’t Forget Your Horses’ Paperwork

It all started as I was getting ready to take my daughters and their two horses out of state (South Georgia) for another youth rodeo. I spent most of Friday morning running around town, filling… Read More
Posted: February 12, 2018
It all started as I was getting ready to take my daughters and their two horses out of state (South Georgia) for another youth rodeo. I spent most of Friday morning running around town, filling… Read More
by David Holmes
Posted: February 12, 2018
Crape myrtle is a very hardy plant for central Florida, with few cultural problems It is a good thing, for this plant is frequently mistreated, yet survives on toughness. Perhaps the most common malady the… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: crape murder, crape myrtle, crape myrtles, pruning
by Mark Bailey
Posted: February 9, 2018
A weed is simply a plant growing where it is not welcome. Weeds can cause a decline in the aesthetic quality of a lawn or they might severely damage the yield potential of an economically… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Home Landscapes
Tags: crop, crops, herbicide, resistance, rotation, sustainability, weed, weeds, WSSA
by Mark Bailey
Posted: February 9, 2018
If you want your grass to grow greener, your trees to grow taller, or have a bumper crop of vegetables, then you might want to know as much as you can about soil. Florida soils… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Home Landscapes
Tags: erosion, nitrogen, pathogens, pH, sand, sandy, soil management, toxicity
by jpopenoe
Posted: January 30, 2018
Peach trees produce more flowers than the tree can bring to full size fruit. Only about 5% of flowers are required to set for a commercial crop. Flower or young fruit thinning is required to… Read More
by jpopenoe
Posted: January 30, 2018
Fruit trees are usually a grafted combination of rootstock and top, or scion, that provides the fruit quality desired on a rootstock that will grow well in specific environments and provide certain qualities to the… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Horticulture
Tags: apomictic seeds, citrus rootstock, Popenoe, propagation, rooted cuttings, tissue culture
Posted: January 26, 2018
Even though horses are faster, stronger, and more competitive (as a whole) than at any other time in history, equine reproductive efficiency is the lowest of all domestic animals. For owners and managers whose primary… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock
Tags: anestrus, autumnal transition, breeders, breeding season, broodmare, Equine, foals, gestation, heat, Horse, mare, ovulation, reproduction, Shuffitt, vernal transition
by maxine32666
Posted: January 9, 2018
For the first time in several years we have seen freezing temperatures here in central Florida and will likely see more of them before spring gets here. The cold temperatures can burn back some… Read More
Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: cold protection, cold weather, damage, freeze, freezing, frost, frost cloth, Hunter, new growth, ornamentals, plants, prune, temperatures
Posted: January 5, 2018
“What is causing these large mounds of dirt in my pasture and how do I get rid of them? One of my yearlings stepped in one of the holes and twisted her ankle. I’ve tried… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Home Landscapes, Livestock, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: gardens, gopher, lawns, mounds, pasture, pocket, rodent, salamander, sandy-mounder, Shuffitt, tunnel, tunnel system
Posted: January 5, 2018
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Livestock, Natural Resources
Tags: Bainum, control, herbicides, overgrazing, pastures, stocking rates, weed management, weeds
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