Historical Evolution of Selective Breeding and Genetic Traits For many centuries, farmers and ranchers have made careful selections from their crops and herds based on desirable qualities. The selected individuals are then bred to produce a ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
The Power of Machine Learning Today, agricultural engineering includes the wide range of technologies and disciplines that must be employed to meet the challenges of a new century. A hundred years ago, agricultural engineers were developing ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
The Impact of Water Movement Water is always going someplace. Rivers and rain – these are obviously water in motion, but even in a lake, as placid as it may seem, water is on the move, exiting through rivers and creeks and up into the air. ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
The Challenge of Weather in Agriculture “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it” is a famous quote that has been around for many years. Although we still cannot modify the weather to fit the needs of our crops ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
It has been a hundred years or more since most Americans lived on a farm. That number dropped steadily during the 20th century until now, when it’s about two percent. Today, most people live in urban and suburban areas and have no connection ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Farm Management, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
It is an everyday miracle that plants, powered by sunlight, convert vast amounts of inorganic matter into living tissues. That miracle is the foundation of most life on earth. The success of the human species is owed in many ways to our ability ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
If you think about it, watering the yard with sprinklers is one of the rare situations in which the product is sprayed away from the target in order to apply it. Sprinklers do this in order to distribute the water over large areas and let water ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Water. We wash the dishes, draw a bath, and run the washing machine, but thanks to a public utility system that delivers a seemingly endless supply of fresh, clean water to our indoor taps and outdoor hoses, we rarely have to think about how ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, smart machines, unmanned aerial vehicles – if this sounds like something out of the latest sci-fi epic, think again – this is the new agriculture, and Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis is harnessing ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Blog Community, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Extension
Five graduate students from the Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) department attended a course in crop physiology and climate change in the Netherlands that was jointly hosted by Wageningen University and The University of Florida ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS