2025 is expected to be another year of high prices of cattle producers. Prices for steers, heifers, replacements, and cull cows in Florida are 9%, 7%, 22%, and 16% higher year over year. As more heifers are retained and culling slows, the value ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock
Authors: Kevin Athearn, Amanda Phillips, and Joel Love In the Suwannee Valley field corn is grown for grain, silage, and deer food plots. Grain corn is sold to local buyer elevators, primarily for use as animal feed. Suwannee Valley grain ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Extension
Authors: Sydney Williams, Taite Miller, Shivendra Kumar, Barry Tillman, Kevin Athearn, Jay Capasso, Mark Warren, Emily Beach, Keith Wynn, Kevin Korus, Raymond Balaguer, Dan Fenneman, Tyler Pittman, Derrick Conover. Peanuts in the Suwannee Valley The ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Extension
2025 Soil Health and Cover Crop Workshop Farmers, industry and agency stakeholders, administrators, students, and faculty gathered in Live Oak, FL at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research And Education Center, on February 13 to attend the ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a key pest in Florida horticulture production and nematicide application is an important part of an integrated pest management (IPM) approach. To that end, there is a recent addition to the limited number of nematicides ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Going into 2025, one of the main questions is still when we will start expanding. An additional question is can we start expanding. The current number of heifers held as beef cow replacements is 4.6 million head, down roughly 1 percent year ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock
Peanut root-knot nematode is one of the major pests in peanut production in Florida and the Southeast in general. Along with crop rotation and nematicide application, use of resistant peanut cultivars is a primary method for managing peanut ... READ MORE
Category: Crops, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Authors: Sydney Williams and Shivendra Kumar Florida’s Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) is a comprehensive framework for restoring water quality by reducing pollutant loading in water bodies. In the Suwannee Valley region, which is home ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops
Authors: Sydney Williams, Mark Warren, and Shivendra Kumar For Florida hay producers, efficient nitrogen (N) management is crucial not only to maximize yields but also to protect the environment by minimizing nitrogen loss to leaching. Traditional ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops
Crop producers' planting, management, and marketing decisions are guided by their understanding of production costs and market outlook. This article describes 2025 enterprise budgets and crop prices for Suwannee Valley peanuts and grain corn. Enterprise ... READ MORE
Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management