An excerpt from Jessica Salmond at YourObserver.com Ranchers learn to adapt when development changes the landscape. Standing in a 20-acre pasture east of Lorraine Road, Jason McKendree remembered the days when he couldn’t hear the sound of bulldozers working on a new subdivision. That was a time the Mary Fran Carroll Bridge was made of wood...Read More

The Joe What? Podcast is a series of interviews by Joao (Joe) Vendramini of the UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center. Recorded in May 2017.Read More

Blackbeard’s Ranch is a farm that CARES. Jim Strickland owns and operates this Florida ranch just south of Myakka City and has made environmental stewardship a priority on his cow/calf operation. To see more about Florida farmers and ranchers who work to preserve the environment and to learn about the CARES program, visit http://www.thisfarmcares.org/Read More

Excerpt from Sarasota Herlad Tribune Sitting in an open air chickee hut with expansive views of the pastures and pine forests on his ranch bordering Myakka River State Park, Jim Strickland points to a tree line in the distance to show where a golf course once was planned. Before Strickland and a partner bought the...Read More