A Tribute to the Life of County Agent Shep Eubanks
Dr. Pete Vergot, Northwest District Director & Doug Mayo, Jackson County Extension Director On Friday, November 6, 2020, Shepherd “Shep” Eubanks lost his battle with cancer at the age of 58. He...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 1950 Farm Co-Op Promo Film for Alabama Farmers
This week’s featured video is a historic film used to recruit Alabama farmers into the Tennessee Valley Cooperative, circa 1950. This film merges the Alabama Extension Service, research from the...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 1956 Kansas Wheat Farmer
This week’s featured video was a historic Encyclopedia Britannica short film stored on the Charlie Dean Archives YouTube channel. The 13-minute film shares a year in the life of a Kansas farm family...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 1960s Documentary on American Corn Belt Farmers
This week’s featured video was published on YouTube by 16mm Educational Films. This 16-minute video shares the history of the Corn Belt in the Midwestern US. In the documentary they also talk about...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 500 Years of Cattle in Florida
Florida has a rich agricultural history, but one of the historic facts that Florida cattlemen take great pride in is that cattle were introduced into what later became the United States through Florida...
View ArticleFriday Feature: Florida Cracker Cattle – A Spanish Legacy
This week’s featured video was produced by the Florida Department of Agriculture for the Florida Museum to be presented at the Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition exhibit that travel...
View ArticleCelebrating a Century of Service to the Agriculture Industry by the UF/IFAS...
[metaslider id=46327] Ramdeo Seepaul, Research Assistant Scientist, and Sheeja George, Agricultural Scientist, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center From stacks of paper notes stating...
View ArticleNFREC Faculty Tribute to Arnie Forrester
Many people involved in agriculture in the Florida Panhandle knew Arnie Forrester. He grew cotton, peanuts, and cantaloupe on his farm in Jackson County, near Bascom. Arnie tragically lost his life in...
View ArticleFriday Feature: Herds West (1955 Beef Production)
This week’s featured video comes from the Charlie Dean Archives. The video provides an overview of beef cattle production in the Western US in 1955. Much of today’s modern beef production system was...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 100 Year History of UF/IFAS NFREC
Back in October 2021, the North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC) celebrated their 100th anniversary. On October 1, we shared an article with their history: Celebrating a Century of...
View ArticleFriday Feature: Great Florida Cattle Drive 2016
This week’s featured video was published by the Associated Press to share highlights from the 2016 Great Florida Cattle Drive, which was the third such ride held to commemorate the history of cattle...
View ArticleGreat Florida Cattle Drive 2022 will Celebrate 500 Years of Cattle in Florida...
To celebrate 500 years of cattle production in Florida, the Florida Cow Culture Preservation Committee has organized a trail drive for 500 people driving 1,000 across Old Florida, from December 4-10,...
View ArticleContributions of Native Americans to Sustainable Cropping Systems – The Three...
Milpa in Zaragoza, Tilantongo. Credit: Paul Rogé, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) DeAnthony Price, Agriculture Agent, UF/IFAS Extension Jefferson County Native...
View ArticleFriday Feature: Dr. John Woeste, UF/IFAS Leader, Inducted into Florida Ag...
This week’s featured video was published by the Florida Department of Agriculture to highlight one of this year’s Florida Ag Hall of Fame inductees. Dr. John Woeste was the Dean of UF/IFAS Extension...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 100 Years of Farmall (CaseiH) Tractors
The first Farmall tractor was produced by International Harvester (IH) in 1923. Bert R. Benjamin, IH Engineer, had a vision for a tractor that could replace horses. He developed a revolutionary design...
View ArticleFriday Feature: The History of Bobcat Loaders
This week’s featured video was published by Prairie Public Television to share the history of the Bobcat Loader. Two ingenious brothers, Cyril and Louis Keller, grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota....
View ArticleExploring the Ancient History of Florida’s Soils
The Myakka soil series is the official state soil of Florida and is primarily found in the central and southern parts of the state. It includes white sand that has been leached of nutrients and a dark...
View ArticleFriday Feature: 1950s Farm Electrification Documentary
2023 has been a hard year for farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle with heat, drought, high-priced inputs, and high interest rates. As this growing season comes to an end, I thought it might help to...
View ArticleJanuary 2024 US Cattle Inventory Down 2%
Figure 1: Source: USDA NASS January 2024 Cattle Report USDA’s National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) published their January 2024 Cattle Report on January 31st. As was expected, the US...
View ArticleUSDA Releases 2022 Census of Agriculture Data
Source: USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced, on February 13, 2024, the results of the...
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