Authored by: 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 ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, LivestockAuthored by: Carissa Wickens, UF/IFAS Equine Specialist Paying Attention to Horse Behavior Learning how to recognize changes in behavior, and how to address behavioral problems appropriately is extremely important to ensuring your horse’s ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, LivestockAuthored by: Dr. Saundra TenBroeck, UF/IFAS Extension Horse Specialist, Department of Animal Sciences If you examined the horse from a design engineering perspective, you would quickly realize they have been created to live in circumstances ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, LivestockAuthored by: Dr. Carissa Wickens, UF/IFAS, Department of Animal Sciences The cornea of the eye is the outside cellular layer of the eyeball, which functions as a protective barrier, and helps focus light on the retina located at the back ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, LivestockAuthored by: Dr. Carissa Wickens, UF/IFAS, Department of Animal Sciences and Dr. Nettie Liburt, Mars Horse Care, BUCKEYE™ Nutrition Donkeys evolved in desert areas and were well adapted to grazing poor-quality forages. Ancestors of donkeys ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Livestock
Authored by: Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist One of the major objectives of farm bill legislation is to provide an “income safety net” for farmers involve in production agriculture. The purpose of the safety net is to provide ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management
Authored by: Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist USDA’s August 2026 monthly crop production and supply and demand estimates were mixed news and should likely have little impact on the market. But anyway, the focus seems to increasingly ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops
Authored by: Ethan Carter, Regional Row Crop Agent The UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy, Florida hosted its annual Row Crop Field Day on July 30th. The third edition of this event has slowly grown in size and ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Extension
Authored by: Barry Tillman, UF/IFAS Peanut Breeder & Interim NFREC Director For the past several years, I have been wondering if tomato spotted wilt has “left our region." Of course, I know it has not, but we certainly have not observed ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Pests & Disease
Rainfall Historically in Florida, July is one of the wettest months of the year, but it was not in 2026. The map to the left above shows NOAA's estimated rainfall from July in Florida. There were areas shaded in fuchsia that received ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Water