By: Carole L. Jaworski Source: Mickie Swisher (352) 392-1869 GAINESVILLE – There is still time to register for the University of Florida’s "Food and the Environment” Internet course being offered this spring. But the Dec. 24 deadline is… Read More
By: Cindy Spence Source: Robert Black (352) 392-1835 GAINESVILLE—Before you enlist the help of mistletoe to land some smooches this holiday season, there’s something University of Florida horticulturist Robert Black wants you to know. Mistletoe is a weed…. Read More
By: Cindy Spence Source: Dov Borovsky (561) 778-7200 VERO BEACH—Dov Borovsky wants to put mosquitoes on a diet. Under the Borovsky three-day diet plan, legions of anorexic little buzzers would just starve to death. And that’s exactly the… Read More
By: Carole L. Jaworski Source: Michael Moulton (352) 846-0571 GAINESVILLE – “Ecology and Management of Wildlife Invasions” will be offered as a distance education course this spring by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences…. Read More
By: Carole L. Jaworski Source: Karl Kepner (352) 392-1871 GAINESVILLE – The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences will offer a distance education human resource management course this spring. “Human Resource Management in Agribusiness” is… Read More
By: Carole L. Jaworski Source(s): Robert Myer (850) 482-9955 Joel Brendemuhl (352) 392-2454 Ted McKim (407) 824-7447 Kenny Camp (352) 394-7744 GAINESVILLE – You’ve eaten your Thanksgiving dinner, cleaned up the kitchen and scraped the leftovers into Fido’s… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source(s): Douglas Archer (352) 392-1991 ext. 202 Tom Gardine/FDA (202) 260-8920 Ricardo Gomez/USDA (202) 401-5290 Lynn Isaacs/FDA Orlando (407) 648-6922 ext. 202 WEST PALM BEACH—Amid growing concerns over food safety, federal… Read More
By: Sylvia Beauchamp Source: Lawrence Datnoff (561) 996-3062 BELLE GLADE—Instead of using expensive pesticides to control crop diseases, South Florida rice growers can save thousands of dollars in production costs and boost yields simply by adding some silicon… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source: Howard Beck (352) 392-3196 John Jackson David Ayers (352) 343-4101 LAKE ALFRED—The Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN), a new agricultural weather data information service developed and operated by the University… Read More
By: Cindy Spence Source: Dan Culbert (561) 770-5030 VERO BEACH—There was a time when people came to Florida to see botanical wonders rather than those made by man. The main tourist attractions were oak trees dripping with Spanish… Read More
