Category: Crops

Hastings farmers explore sweet potatoes as alternative crop

by Samantha Murray

August 29, 2016

Back in the 1920s, Danny Johns’ great grandfather was the first farmer in the Hastings area to use a tractor instead of a mule. Now, in a region known for producing potatoes for the potato chip industry, Johns, like his ancestor, isn’t afraid ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Boniato, Chipping Potatoes, Featured Hot Topic, Hastings, Sweet Potato Weevil, Sweet Potatoes, UF/IFAS Hastings Agricultural Extension Center

UF/IFAS Extension in Suwannee Valley region helps watermelon growers save water, fuel, fertilizer

by Tennille Herron

August 18, 2016

LIVE OAK, Fla. --- Robert Hochmuth remembers about 30 years ago when researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Suwanee Valley Agricultural Extension Center showed watermelon growers how to use transplants ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Soil And Water Sciences

UF/IFAS 4Rs program helps growers use best management practices for fertilizer use

by BLOGS.IFAS

August 17, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers have introduced a program to help Florida growers maximize the use of nutrients and fertilizers while minimizing the impact on the ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS
Tags: Soil And Water Sciences

Value of Bees to Blueberry Fruit Set

by Josh Campbell

August 1, 2016

Florida Blueberry Industry Blueberry growers in central and south Florida mostly utilize the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum). It does not require many chill hours (the necessary number of hours where temperatures fall between 32 and ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Fruits & Vegetables, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Beekeeping, Bees, Jcampbell, Research Update, UFHoneyBeeLab

Strauss joins UF/IFAS fight against citrus greening

by BLOGS.IFAS

July 27, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A new researcher has joined the University of Florida’s fight against citrus greening, which has devastated the state’s industry. Sarah Strauss, a soil microbiologist most recently from Davis, California, has accepted ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Soil And Water Sciences

Entomologist joins UF/IFAS to help solve citrus greening

by BLOGS.IFAS

July 26, 2016

FORT PIERCE, Fla. – An entomologist with 10 years of research focused on the state’s iconic citrus industry has joined the faculty of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Indian River Research and Education ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Entomology And Nematology

UF/IFAS research could lead to more and healthier sorghum

by Brad Buck

July 25, 2016

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher has identified two areas of the sorghum genome that could boost the plant’s resistance to the anthracnose disease. This finding could ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Biofuel, Genome, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Sorghum, Wilfred Vermerris

Satsumas Return to North Florida

by Jose Perez

July 20, 2016

Tour a Satsuma Grove on October 11. There was a time when citrus production was booming in North Florida. In the 1920’s, Jackson County, Florida, was known as the satsuma capital of the world. Satsuma is a citrus variety with excellent ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management
Tags: Citrus, Conference, Farm To School

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