By: Cindy Spence Source(s): Ken Langeland 352-392-9614 Dan Thayer 561-686-8809 LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE—An exotic vine that already covers 40,000 acres of South Florida wilderness is on the brink of an expansion that could make it the worst… Read More
By: Ed Hunter (352) 392-1773 x 278 Source: Andrew Lazur aml@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, (850) 674-3184 BLOUNTSTOWN – Researchers at the University of Florida’s Sam Mitchell Aquaculture Farm harvested about 1,800 farm-raised Gulf of Mexico sturgeon this week, completing a 17-month… Read More
Source(s): Joe Joyce (352) 392-1971 Don Poucher (352) 392-0437 TALLAHASSEE—A University of Florida official proposed today (Nov. 3) what he says is a UF plan to define Florida’s evolution into the 21st Century. Speaking before the Florida Senate… Read More
By: Cindy Spence View Photo BELLE GLADE—For the spooks that haunt the Everglades Agricultural Area, Halloween happens every night as they swoop through the skies above the sprawling sugar cane fields in search of treats.But these winged apparitions… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source(s): Jimmy Cheek (352) 392-1961 GAINESVILLE—Effective immediately, the University of Florida’s College of Agriculture has a new name — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences — that more accurately reflects the… Read More
By: Cindy Spence Source: Phil Koehler pgk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-2484 GAINESVILLE—University of Florida researchers say yellow jacket season is at its peak and warn parents to be particularly careful about keeping children away from the territorial insects’ nests. Earlier… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source(s): Tom Spreen (352) 392-1826, ext. 209 Andrew Schmitz (352) 392-1845, ext. 415 Bill Messina (352) 392-1881, ext. 308 MIAMI—With new and existing trade agreements expected to reshape the multibillion dollar… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source(s): James Wadley (785) 231-1010, ext. 1682 Leo Polopolus (352) 392-1845, ext. 416 GAINESVILLE—James B. Wadley, professor of law and director of the Rural Law Center at the School of Law… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source(s): Ruth Francis-Floyd rff@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-9617, ext. 229 UF/IFAS County Extension Direc pybas@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, (305) 248-3311, ext. 241 Mary Peters (Broward) mpeters@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu, (954) 370-3725 Clayton Hutcheson (Palm Beach) ceh@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu (561) 233-1712 HOMESTEAD—In… Read More
By: Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281 Source: Wayne Odegaard (352) 754-4433 BROOKSVILLE—The 1999 Florida Small Farm Day will be held at the Hernando County Fairgrounds in Brooksville on Oct. 30. Small farm owners and those interested in… Read More
